Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon True or False

1. What, according to physicist Emilio Segrè, was the primary justification for building the atomic bomb? -> Defeating Hitler, the personification of evil
2. For many of the scientists, when did the bomb change from being a symbol of hope and victory to something scary and too powerful to contain? -> After Hiroshima as well as the end of the war in Europe
3. What metaphor could be used to describe the need to build the first bomb? -> It was like a sleep over.
4. Which other famous symbol could we compare the bomb to? -> The dollar sign
5. The explosion of the atomic bomb had a distinctive shape. What was it most often compared to? -> A mushroom

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