Nuclear Warfare

By rblaser

  • first test for an atomic bomb

    first test for an atomic bomb
    Los Alamos was approved as the site for the main test site.

  • Trinity Test

    Trinity Test
    president Harry Truman receives report on the successful trinity test.

  • Little Boy is ready

    Little Boy is ready
    The assembly of Little Boy is completed. It is ready for use the next day.

  • Fat Man arrives

    Fat Man arrives
    Fat Man bomb cases F-31 and F-32 arrive on Tinian, carried by 509th B-29's Luke the Spook and Laggin' Dragon. Fat Man assembly begins.

  • Hiroshima gets bombed

    Hiroshima gets bombed
    the aftermath of Hiroshima is all ash and destruction.

  • Ten minutes after takeoff

    Ten minutes after takeoff
    2:55 a.m. Ten minutes after takeoff, Dutch Van Kirk writes his initial entry in the navigator’s log.

  • Necessary Evil Plane

    Necessary Evil Plane
    necessary evil plane takes off.

  • Japanese recuperate

    Japanese recuperate
    A seven-man Imperial Army investigation team (dispatched from Tokyo and delayed by aircraft problems) arrives at Hiroshima and circles the city by plane.

  • Nagasaki gets bombed

    Nagasaki gets bombed
    Three days after Hiroshima got hit, Nagasaki gets hit as well.

  • Japan surrenders

    Japan surrenders
    Japanese officials sign the formal Japanese Instrument of Surrender on board the USS Missouri.

  • sources

    https://www.britannica.com/technology/atomic-bomb https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombing-timeline https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki