Bomb Timeline

By CatScott

  • Atoms

    Atoms
    Otto Hahn discovered that the world was made of atoms P.14

  • Water Droplet

    Water Droplet
    Bohr suggested that the nucleus of an atom might act like a water droplet P.15

  • Fission

    Fission
    Called this splitting of atoms fission P.16

  • U-235 Atoms

    U-235 Atoms
    When scientists figured out that only some atoms fissioned and those atoms were U-235 P.123

  • First Atomic Bomb Set Off

    First Atomic Bomb Set Off
    Trinity Site near Alamogordo, where the world's first atomic bomb exploded. P.183