Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Turning Points on the Timeline for World War 2

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