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The Atomic Bomb Timeline

  • The Manhattan Project

    The Manhattan Project
    The creation of the world's first atomic bomb. America was only six years away from bombing Hiroshima at this time...
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    What started out as a quiet and peaceful Sunday morning would take a really sharp turn as the Japanese forces soared the Pacific to shoot up and bomb Pearl harbor on Oahu, Hawaii.
  • Living In Infamy

    Living In Infamy
    Pres. FDR delivers his famous post-Pearl Harbor speech exactly a day after the bombings.
  • Road To Detonation

    Road To Detonation
    American forces began training for their big, historic sweeping on Japan.
  • The Rumor Is "Truman"

    The Rumor Is "Truman"
    Pres. Harry S. Truman discovers how powerful an atomic bomb could be. He then orders for the American forces to drop this bomb right on Japan.
  • Carrying Out Destruction

    Carrying Out Destruction
    After the American aerial forces dropped their bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Land of the Rising Sun was forced to surrender, enough to end WWII.
  • Spreading Like Wildfire

    Spreading Like Wildfire
    The news of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki spread throughout the world. Despite its aftermath and leaving all survivors of the bombings shaken, many people had favored the bombings, some even saying that more atomic bombs should've been dropped on Japan before they ever had the chance to surrender.