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German scientist Otto Hahn discovers Nuclear fission in a lab. It was explained theoretically in January.
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The German Nuclear Energy Project was founded. It was a clandestine effort for germany to try and create an atomic bomb. However, by 1942, the Nuclear weapon effort by Germany had dissipated.
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Enrico Fermi visits DC to tell that germans are working on nuclear research.
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Albert Einstein writes a letter to Franklin D R about the looming threat of an atomic bomb.
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Effort to build an atomic bomb codenamed “The Manhattan project”.
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Fermi led a group to a nuclear chain reaction, at the university of Chicago. This led to a huge increase in funds. funds were used freely and the project advanced incredibly fast after.
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Los Alamos Laboratory, or ‘project Y’ set in place. Dr. Robert oppenheimer was put in charge of the assembly of an atomic bomb.
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codenamed ‘Trinity’, The first ever atomic bomb was tested at Trinity testing site in New Mexico. The bomb was nicknamed “The Gadget”. After detonation, the explosion released light visible from 200 miles away, a 40,000 foot tall mushroom cloud, and blew out windows on buildings that were a hundred miles away.
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The United states dropped “little boy” on Hiroshima, Japan; the first Atomic bomb ever used as a military weapon. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the cities population and instantly killed 80,000 people.
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The United states dropped yet another Atomic bomb on Japan after they refused to surrender. The bomb was nicknamed “Fat Man”, killed about 40,000 people.
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Devastated by the effects of the two atomic bombs, Japan’s emperor Hirohito unconditionally surrendered.
