BOMB vocab

a research & development undertaking during WWII that produced the first nuclear weapons by the U.S. (& support of Britain and Canada).

• Area 51

• KGB

• Manhattan Project

• Vemork

committee for state security for Soviet Union. They were often known for cultivating spies and trying to covert others to Communism

• Mesa

• KGB

• CIA

• Blitzkrieg

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

an isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides, found in landscapes with horizontal strata

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

private ranch school for boys that was converted into the secret nuclear research campus for the US

• Vemork

• Manhattan Project

• Comrades

• Los Alamos Ranch School

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

process in which the products themselves promote or spread the reaction

• chain reaction

• demolition

• saboteurs

• atoms

a hydroelectric power plant in Norway. It's main purpose was to fix nitrogen for the production of fertilizer. Later it became the first plant to produce heavy water for hydrogen production for Germany.

• Los Alamos

• Vemork

• Manhattan Project

• Comrades

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

a companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

the action or process of demolishing or being demolished

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

a person who engages in sabotage (deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct something especially for military advantage)

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

emitting or relating to the emission of ionizing radiation or particles

• radioactive

• fission

• tradecraft

• blitzkrieg

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4