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- Title
The Bonebrake Theological Seminary: Top-Secret Manhattan Project Site.
- Authors
Sopka, Katherine; Sopka, Elisabeth
- Abstract
We discuss the top-secret Manhattan Project site established at the Bonebrake Theological Seminary in 1943 in Dayton, Ohio, where research on polonium and its production was carried out. The polonium produced there was then transported to Los Alamos to be used in a polonium–beryllium neutron source whose purpose was to ignite the plutonium implosion bomb that would be dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. Our account is based primarily on the recollections of John J. Sopka, research physicist at the Bonebrake laboratory.
- Subjects
NAGASAKI-shi (Japan); JAPAN; UNITED States; MANHATTAN Project (U.S.); THEOLOGICAL seminaries; POLONIUM; ATOMIC bomb; BOMBARDMENT of Nagasaki-shi (Japan), 1945
- Publication
Physics in Perspective, 2010, Vol 12, Issue 3, p338
- ISSN
1422-6944
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00016-010-0019-4