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Fission discovered
On December 17, 1938, a German scientist named Otto Hahn discovered that if you speed electrons into a Uranium atom, it will make a grand of sand jump. So when you put a whole bunch of it into one thing, it will release alot of energy, making an explosion. -
The Test Shot
On July 16, 1945, Americans tested out thier first nucleur bomb in the dessert of Nevada 350 miles away from a secret city called Los Alamos. The blast was heard from 150 miles away and the flash of light was seen from 450 miles away from the detonation. They called the bomb, "The Gadget" -
Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, devastaion struck Hiroshima. Paul Warfield Tibbets was the pilot on the plane called the Enola Gay, the ship that dropped a 9,700 pound nuclear bomb that was called the "Little Boy" on Hiroshima. Together the Fat Man and the Little Boy killed between 150,000 people to 246,000 people, they neveer got the excact amount. -
Nagasaki
On August 9, 1945, a ship that dilivered the final blow to japan just three days after Hiroshima was headed right on over to Nagasaki. Weighing 10,300 pounds, the bomb "Fat Man" was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Together the Fat Man and the Little Boy killed between 150,000 people to 246,000 people, they neveer got the excact amount. -
Japan surrenders
On September 2, 1945, Japan ruler Hirohito surrendered WW2 because hundreds of thousands of his own people were slaughtered by 2 atomic bombs. -
Windscale
October 10, 1957, was the biggest nuclear accident in the United Kingdoms history. With 240 cancer causalities from radiation poisoning. -
Sodium Reactor Experiment
July 13-26, 1959, it caused cancer to people within a 62 mile radius, 240 people out of 1,800 and it realesed 459 times more radiation than 3 mile island -
SL-1
On January 3, 1961, there were 3 fatileties at the sight of the SL-1. The cause of these nuclear melt down at this facilitie was only from the accidental removal of a rod. -
3 Mile Island
March 28, 1978, luckily with no casualties, this was still the biggest nuclear accident in American history. -
Chernobyl
April 26, 1986, during this tragic event, there were 4,000 fatalities, 56 direct deaths, and out of the highly exposed 600,000 people exposed, only 4,000 died which is still a big number of causalities. The amount of radioactivity released into the atmosphere is the 10th amount as what was released from Fukushima. -
Fukushima Daiichi
March 11, 2011, during this horrible, there were 6 causalities and the amount of radioactivity released into the worlds atmosphere is 1/10 the amount from Chernobyl.
