The Manhattan Project

6 Minute English

语言学习

2022-06-23

6 分钟
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  • Sam: I'm Sam.

  • Rob: And I'm Rob.

  • Sam: On August the sixth 1945,

  • the US aircraft, Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima,

  • instantly killing 70,000 people.

  • When Japan refused to surrender,

  • a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later.

  • Many believe the bombings quickened the end of the Second World War.

  • But it came at a terrible human cost,

  • which some have called a crime against humanity.

  • Rob: The invention of the atomic bomb,

  • which resulted from the cooperation

  • between the US military and some of the world's leading scientific minds,

  • was known as The Manhattan Project.

  • In this programme we'll take a look into the science and the politics of The Manhattan Project,

  • and as usual, we'll learn some new vocabulary as well.

  • Sam: Even before World War Two,

  • scientists had known about the potential energy inside uranium,

  • the heaviest metal in the periodic table -

  • a diagram which groups the chemical elements into rows and columns