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The Japanese bombed the American Naval Fleet located in Pearl Harbor.
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Docter Robert Oppemheimer leads Project to develop Atomic Bomb
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Atomic bomb first tested with force of 18.6 KT
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The U.S. U.K. and China call for surrender of Japan. Which they cordially ignored.
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Bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, "Little Boy" Dropped by the Enola Gay.
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90,000 to 166,000 died within the first 2 to 4 months of explosion. 60% disintegrated on spot, 30% from falling debris, and 10% from other causes.
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Allies receive news that Hiroshima broadcasts state that "Practically all living things, human and animal, were literally seared to death"
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The American B-29 "The Bockscar" drops the Atomic Bomb, "Fat Man" onto the Japanese city, Nagasaki.
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60,000 to 80,000 people died. Roughly 50% were disintergrated on the spot!
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Carried scientific observers and took photographs for the Bockscar.
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Unconditional surrender of Japan and the end of WWII.
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By the end of 1945, 90,000 to 166,000 were estimated to have died of nuclear causes.
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By the end of 1950 up to 200,000 were estimated to have died due to cancer and other long-term effects.
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First Hydrogen Bomb Testing.
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Japan's resolution to restrict nuclear armament.
