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