The manhattan project
n 1940, the usa started to fund its own atomic weapons development program. The us paid a team of scientists led by j.Robert Oppenheimer to work on –uranium-235 and plutonium (Pu-239) and turn it to atomic bombs, they were sent Los Alamos, New Mexico. On july 16 1945, the manhattan project held its first successful test of an atomic device in Alamogordo,New Mexico.
Attacks on Hiroshima and Nagaski
Hiroshima is located about 500 miles away from Tokyo
and it was elected as the first target. On August 6,1945 the us sent a modified b29 bomber christened enola gay and the pilot was colonel paul tibbets. At 8:15 am the plane dropped a nuclear bomb knowned as "little boy" by parachute and it exploded 2,000 ft above Hiroshima destroying five square miles of the city
Nagaski was the second and last city to get hit with a nuclear bomb,on august 9 major charles sweeney flew another b-29 bomber called "Bockscar" and dropped the nuke called "fat man" at 11:02 am more powerful than the one in Hiroshima.
Hiroshima is located about 500 miles away from Tokyo
and it was elected as the first target. On August 6,1945 the us sent a modified b29 bomber christened enola gay and the pilot was colonel paul tibbets. At 8:15 am the plane dropped a nuclear bomb knowned as "little boy" by parachute and it exploded 2,000 ft above Hiroshima destroying five square miles of the city
Nagaski was the second and last city to get hit with a nuclear bomb,on august 9 major charles sweeney flew another b-29 bomber called "Bockscar" and dropped the nuke called "fat man" at 11:02 am more powerful than the one in Hiroshima.