Weapons Testing Weapons Testing
Weapons testing in America began in October of1939 when Albert Einstein sent a letter to president Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding Germany's exploration in Atomic Bombs. October 3, 1942 was the first successful V-2 rocket. It traveled a distance of 118 miles. It was launched at Peenemunde, which is an island off of the coast of Germany.The first atomic bomb was launched on July 16, 1945 at the Trinity Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico.The V-2 rocket was a one ton warhead. It could fly six miles in the air and a distance of 200 miles before turning over and before impact on it's target it would reach speeds of over 4,000 mph.The first V-2 rockets that were used against real people were launched on September 6, 1944. These two rockets were fired on the city of Paris. Over the next few months 1,100 more misses were launched with Paris being the target.In 1950, America decided to develope more advanced nuclear bombs, known as the H-bomb.
Oppenheimer and General Groves at the Trinity Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
This a video of the V-2 rocket testing took place in Germany.
The Red Scare
McCarthyism WIkianswer.com defines McCarthyism as1. The practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence.2. The use of unfair investigatory or accusatory methods in order to suppress opposition.McCarthism or Americanism was it was called earlier well like Anti-Communist in the Western hemisphere countries. Senator McCarthy went as far as to show what an American town would look like under Communist rule.
The Red Scare 
The Red Scare in the 1950's wasn't the first time in American history that people were terrifed of Communist supremacy in America. Communism is a type of Goverment and most popular Communist Government is the U.S.S.R (C.C.C.P). The Soviet Union had spys in the American Government and the American Communist Party was attacked and considered traitors to the Government. To contain Communist from the world, the Government had us believe that every Communist was a spy! Anti-Communist Propaganda became common between Americans from 1947 to 1957.
- McCarthyism
- The Red Scare
Relating to the Book Relating to the Book
The book does not realatively talk about the war it talks about how they want to build the V2 rockets so they can beat the russians to space. Mr. Gordon who is one of the main characters of the book works for general elcectric which is working on V2 rockets. They are actually making weapons but they say that they are going to space.
Mrs. Gordon another main character in the books thinks they should stop working on the rockets and is working on stopping atomic bombs. Mr. Gordon have a daughter named Suze and a young girl the same age as Suze and her name is Dewey. They are really smart and talented young ladies and they have a sore subject with the bomb because Suze's father is always gone working on the rockets. Dewey becomes closer to Suze's mom because Dewey is really into science and technical stuff. This also hurts Suze because she feels that she is not only loosing her father but her mother to.
