The Bonebrake Theological Seminary: Top-Secret Manhattan Project Site |
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Authors: | Katherine R Sopka Elisabeth M Sopka |
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Institution: | (1) 519 Harrison Ave, Unit D419, Boston, MA 02118, USA; |
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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. |
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