The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb

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The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb

• By Stephanie Haua

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Lead in-Science

• Emc2 (Small amount of mass a lot of energy)
• Fission- A chain Reaction with Atoms

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Japans Actions

• Want of Power
• Expansion into China
• Americas Protest
• Pearl Harbor-Dec 7th 1941
• Battles against Japan
• Asking for Surrender

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How it all got started

• -August 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to
  president Roosevelt
• -1942 U.S.A Government established a top secret
  project called the Manhattan Project

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Manhattan Project

• Name form NY District
• Project Centers
• Location

• Cost
• Military Director Scientific Director

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Security of the Project

• Words Are Forbidden
• Code Names
• Totally Top Secret!
• Guards

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The 1st A-Bomb-Trinity

• Exploded with great power
• Brilliant flash of light
• Left crater mark in desert floor
• ½ mile in diameter
• Dropped on July 16th at
• 529 a.m

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Little Boy

• Hiroshima
• Weight-8900 pounds
• Transportation to Japan
• Crew of the plane

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Fat Man

• Weight-10,000 pounds
• Used on Nagasaki
• Worries and Problems
• Bocks Car was the name of plane

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Hiroshima

• August 6th, 1945 816 a.m
• Explosion
• Blast
• One witness said it was like a river of fire
• Secret Revealed
• 320,000 people in city that day

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Nagasaki

• August 9th 1945
• Missed Target by 1 ½ miles
• The blast was equal to 22 tons of TNT
• There were 422,000 who were living in Nagasaki

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Destruction Deaths

• Hiroshima- 70,000-100,000 died 69,000 were
  injured
• Hibakusha
• Evaporated buildings
• 39,000 killed in Nagasaki
• 3 important factories demolished
• Less damage in Nagasaki

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Destruction
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Deaths
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Japans Surrender

• Some Japanese officials didnt want to surrender
• Aug 14th issued statement of surrender
• End of World War 2
• Meet on the USS Missouri on Sept 2nd to sign
  formal surrender documents

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Lasting Effects

• Brought new meaning to warweapons
• The sufferings of the survivors
• Total number of deaths 115,000-340,000
• Lives were saved
• Memorials
• Organizations