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