The Manhattan Project

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The Manhattan Project

• Atomic Bombs Fat Man and Little Boy

Oppenheimer Gen Groves inspect the detonation
site of the A-Bomb in Alamogordo, NM
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Truman Letter
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Little Boy Hiroshima

• Equal to 13,000 TONS of TNT.
• Thousands of degrees hotter than the sun.

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Hiroshima after Little Boy
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Hiroshima.after

• The blast left people vaporized only their
  shadows were left on the few remaining buildings
  left standing

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A City Leveled
This single bomb left 118,661 dead over 30,000
severely injured.
The fireball at the edge reached 1,800
degrees and the shock wave moved at 100 meters
per second, leveling the city.
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Hiroshima in Ruins
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Damages
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Survivors Flee
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Evacuees
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One of the 118,000 Causalities
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Some of the 79,560 injured
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RadiationBurns
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Fat Man andNagasaki Aug. 9, 1945
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Nagasaki Destruction
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Emperor Hirohito SurrendersSeptember 2, 1945
V-J Day
Emperor Hirohito states I cannot bear to see
my innocent people suffer any longer. MacArthur
accepts unconditional surrender aboard the USS
Missouri.
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The world celebrates the end of WW II