Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery

 The newspaper articles about the bombing of Pearl Harbor

 The scientists discussing the Manhattan Project after deciding that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the only way that the Japanese would be forced to surrender 

The top secret map about where the bombings were going to take place ordered by President Truman

"Little Boy" The atomic bomb shown above was dropped on Hiroshima, the first of the bombings on August 6th, 1945. The bomb killed 70,000 people instantly 

"Fat Man" The atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945. The bomb killed 80,000 people instantly

The aftermath of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima

The before and after photos of Nagasaki after "Fat Man" was dropped

On August 15th, 1945 a few days after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States accepted Japanese surrender

V-J Day celebration occurred on August 15th after hearing the news of the Japanese surrender more than two million people crowded into Times Square in New York City to celebrate the end of the war

 

The first bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was the leader of the Manhattan Project

The atomic bomb ends the war in the Pacific after the second and final bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

The first test of the atomic bomb occurs in the New Mexico desert, signaling the beginning of the atomic age.