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The Start of the Atomic Bomb
In 1939 Albert Einstien and serveral other scientist warned the american goverment that hitler was attempting to purify uranium and create a atomic bomb.After that the U.S goverment took serious consideration in researching the atomic bomb -
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The manhattan project begins
In 1941 two months before pearl habor , Franklin D, Roosevelt gives 2 billion dollars of reseach money to secertly research and develop a atomic bomb -
The Team is made
Colonel Leslie Groves gets put in charge of the atomic bomb and robert oppheoimer gets placed as siecntic cheif of staff. -
Japan gets targed
Japan becomes the primary target for the future atomic bomb instead of Germany.Desicion is made by miltary policy committe of the manhattan project -
Where to drop da bomb
The committe of the manhattan project targets four cities in japan to bomb. Kyoto, Hiroshima, Kokura, and Niigata. -
The status quo of the pacific war
The U.S is winning the war agiast japan,the U.S goverment belives the only way to end the war is to make Japan surrender by an invasion of Japan,waiting for Russia to join the war,or by making a Potsdam Declaration(calling for a unconditional surrender of Japan) -
The First Atomic Bomb Detonates
The U.S goverment test the atomic bomb for the first time at 'Trinity Test' at Alamogordo, New Mexico.The test was a success and the atomic bomb becomes a option for making japan surrender -
The final decision
President Truman orders the atomic to used on Japan -
The call for Surrender
U.S issues a postdam declartion/uncondional surrender from japan.Two days later Japan rejects the declartion -
The explosion heard around the world
A plane named the enoyla gay poilted by Paul W. Tibbets, carried atomic bomb code name "little boy".The plane targeted Hiroshima,Japans 7th largest city. The bomb was dropped over the city and instally killed 60,000 people and injured 140,000 more,2/3 of the city was completly destroyed. Those who survived the atomic bomb sufffered from radition posioning, -
The second explosion heard around the world
A plane carring the second atomic bomb code name "Fat Man" heads to Kokura.However due to bad weather the plane changes its destination to nagasaki.At 11:02 am the bomb is detonated at 1,800 feet above the city.40,000 people die instantly and 40,000 are injured.40% of the city was dedstroyed. -
Japans surrender and the end of WW2
Japan annouces its formal surrender to the U.S and its allies.WW2 ended and the race of nuclear arms between the U.S and Russia begin.