Lesson 8 Objectives
- Understand the destructive power of an Atom
bomb
- Describe why the United States decided to pursue
making an Atom bomb
- Explain the importance of Albert Einstein and Leo
Szilard in convincing the United States to pursue
an Atom bomb program
- Relate the importance of Operation Trinity and The
Manhattan Project in developing the Atom bomb
- Compare and contrast the ethical and moral issues
surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
- Understand the destructive power of an Atom
bomb
- Describe why the United States decided to pursue
making an Atom bomb
- Explain the importance of Albert Einstein and Leo
Szilard in convincing the United States to pursue
an Atom bomb program
- Relate the importance of Operation Trinity and The
Manhattan Project in developing the Atom bomb
- Compare and contrast the ethical and moral issues
surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki