1940's Technology Of War

The Atomic Bomb, the most devastating and consequential weapon ever made, which
brought along problems that still affect us today, and probably will for a long time more. It all started with "the
Manhattan Project" a New York based research project that aimed to create the most devastating bomb
before Hitler did. Several People were involved with the project but it was mainly led by J. Robert
Oppenheimer who was appointed by General Leslie Groves. Once the prototype was first tested,
communities near the site thought it was day again and the inventors had mixed reactions. It seemed like
they were a little afraid of what they had done, thinking of how many deaths they might cause. As for the
explosion, in a few seconds atomic vapor rose high in the air lighting the sky and making a strange mushroom
shaped cloud and when it was gone, Jade green, radioactive glass caused by the heat remained on the
ground. Then, on August 6th 1945, The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima causing 66000 deaths and just for
the destruction of a bridge. Then, three days later, another one was dropped on Nagasaki killed about another 40000, leading to Japan's surrender the day after.

 

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The other inventions of war, the first Helicopter (1940), the first Jet (44), the first Jeep (40) and the Biggest Gun (42). The first Helicopter, invented by the Russian born inventor Igor Sikorsky, whose company still continues to make great helicopters. Technically, it's not the first helicopter because Sikorsky had made another one before, but this had only one rotor to its three and this one stayed in the air for one and a half hours, and it's the closest to the modern version. The first Jet, invented by Messerschmitt, was the first of one thousand that would later enter the war. It would have been ready sooner but Hitler demanded a bomber instead of a fighter although this is a fighter. There's not much else to say about it but by Jet I mean no propeller. The First Jeep was designed by to be a lightweight by sturdy general purpose vehicle that can ride through rough terrain that you might encounter in a war like ford shallow streams and sixty percent Gradients. It is and was used for several military purposes from Command and Reconnaissance to the carriage of weapons. Some Jeeps were built with propellers and waterproof hulls for aquatic missions and armor for combat, but these are just some of six-hundred-thousand built by 1945 (one factory had a peak production rate of one every eighty seconds. Then last but definitely not least is the German daddy of all guns, weighing in at over one-thousand-three-hundred-fifty tons, and requiring one-million-four-hundred-twenty-thousand-five-hundred workers just to fire is the 'Gustav'. This baby fires five ton shells and has to be mounted on railroad tracks and is the biggest gun in the history of the world, making it even more astonishing that it completely disappeared at the end of the war, which also means there's not much to say about it.

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