Ready to Move to New Room!!

Our new Physics room in H-1 is finally ready for class on Tuesday, Aug. 25. There is a lot on display, perhaps you may even find a jug of popcorn kernels. They represent the current amount of nuclear weapons in the world. In the mid-60's there existed over 60,000 nuclear warheads, mostly in the US and USSR. Luckily, non-proliferation treaties and active decommissioning have reduced that number to around 20,000 total in the world. Still scary to think that just two small weapons were used to devastate Japan and end WW2. Here's a nice video on the topic....



So worth worrying about? Was the Manhattan Project good for science? This topic may be applicable to Chapter 1, Question number 4.