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The Target Committee of the Manhattan Project select four cities as possible targets for the atomic bomb. They are: Kyoto, Hiroshima, Kokura, and Niigata. (http://americanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/bltimelinemanhat.htm)
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Japan becomes the primary target for any future atomic bomb according to the Military Policy Committee of the Manhattan Project.
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The world's first atomic detonation takes place in the 'Trinity Test' at Alamogordo, New Mexico. (http://americanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/bltimelinemanhat.htm)
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Atomic Bomb use authorized by President Truman. (http://americanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/bltimelinemanhat.htm)
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Potsdam Declaration is issued, calling for the 'unconditional surrender of Japan'. (http://americanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/bltimelinemanhat.htm)
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Potsdam Declaration is rejected by Japan. Allowing the U.S justifaction for bomb drops (http://americanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/bltimelinemanhat.htm)
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Little Boy was a uranium bomb that detonated over Hiroshima, Japan. It killed between 90,000 and 100,000 people immediately. And 10s of thousands afterwards to to radiation (http://americanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/bltimelinemanhat.htm)
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The second atomic bomb to hit Japan was the Fat Man, it was scheduled to be dropped at Kokura. However, because of poor weather the target was moved to Nagasaki. (http://americanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/bltimelinemanhat.htm)
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Japan agree's to the Allies' terms of surrender. (http://americanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/bltimelinemanhat.htm)
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Japan announces its formal surrender. And signes treaty on USS Missori a warship that was in pearl harbor Dec. 7 1941 (http://americanhistory.about.com/library/timelines/bltimelinemanhat.htm)
