1st Influence: Life without Rob? Impossible.

If Robert Oppenheimer never existed life would be too different. He created the atomic bomb! The bomb that was used to end many of the United States wars. One of the wars being the huge war against Japan in 1995. That was when he first introduced it as they attempted to bomb Japan to try to end the war. Other scientist had different ideas the Oppenheimer. Rob’s main challenge was assembling critical mass- that is, how to bring together two piece of U-235 quickly enough to create a chain reaction that would make the explosion. Before he settled on the idea of the “gun method” in which a piece of uranium would be fired like a bullet into another sphere-shaped uranium target. Another scientist named Seth Neddermever had some other suggestions, called an implosion. Seth pictured this as a hollow ball of uranium surrounded by explosive metal. When the explosive would go off the hollow center would collapse, and the now compacted sphere would become critical. Most of the other scientist rejected the idea because the explosion would have to be perfectly even all around the sphere, which seemed impossible. But Oppenheimer told Neddermeyer to proceed with his research by himself. By the summer of 1944, both problems-material and assembly- had become connected. Uranium would work with Rob’s gun method, but production had become so slow that only enough material for one bomb would be ready by mid 1945, by then it would be no use. This meant if Rob wanted to test the bomb, there wouldn’t be one for the war. Furthermore, test of plutonium shoed it would work, but his gun method would take to much time. A plutonium bomb would have to use Neddermever’s method. The factories that were belt could produce plenty of plutonium for the bomb. So far Seth was going no where. He was making no progress what so ever. It seemed as if to create a perfectly even explosion around the bomb's core was impossible to do. The decision came when British scientists joined the team. Among them another young Englishmen named James Tuck who suggested using an explosive lens to direst the force just as a regular lens directs light rays. If such lenses were focused around the core, it should be possible to produce and even explosion. Gradually, the implosion bomb began to take shape. The start of 1945 the United States army took over land in the New Mexico desert to test the bomb. On the morning of July 16th, 1945 Rob stood silently, awaiting the test bomb. He wrote in his letters, descriptions of the unleashed bomb.