| The timeline of World War 2 will show that on | | | | the United States with assistance from the |
| 6 August 1945 "Little Boy" was dropped on the | | | | United Kingdom and Canada. This project was |
| Japanese city of Hiroshima. Just three days | | | | what is now known as the Manhattan Project |
| later "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki, | | | | and led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American |
| another Japanese city. It is important to | | | | physicist. Before either bomb was dropped |
| know that "Little Man" and "Fat Man" were | | | | over Japan it was tested at Trinity Site near |
| both nuclear weapons and are, to this date, | | | | Alamogordo, New Mexico in July of 1945. It |
| the only ones ever used in the history of | | | | is interesting to know that the team was |
| warfare. These bombs killed more than | | | | unsure if the bombs would even work properly, |
| 140,000 people in Hiroshima and about 80,000 | | | | however the bombs were a success and ready |
| in Nagasaki. This number does not include | | | | for action over Japan. The bombings of |
| the thousands more killed due to | | | | Hiroshima and Nagasaki, near the end of the |
| complications associated with excessive | | | | timeline of World War 2, were extremely |
| radiation exposure. The bombings of the | | | | bloody and gruesome attacks. They are seen |
| Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked | | | | through history as some of the worst results |
| the beginning of the end of Japanese | | | | of bombings and warfare in human history. |
| involvement on the timeline of World War 2. | | | | Now, nuclear weapons are avoided at all |
| | | | costs. |
| The atomic bombs were designed and built by | | | | |