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The Bombing Of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Timeline

By River_Cook

  • The Manhattan Project begins

    The Manhattan Project begins
    Scientists descover a way to split an atom, creating a huge explosion, and begin to make a bomb using the atom splitting process

  • Trinity Test and end of Manhattan project

    Trinity Test and end of Manhattan project
    The manhattan project is a success, and the First Atomic Bomb is tested at the Trinity Test Site, at Alamogordo.

  • The Bombing of Hiroshima

    The Bombing of Hiroshima
    At 8:16 AM, Japaneeses time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima.

  • Bombing of Nagasaki

    Bombing of Nagasaki
    At 11:02 a.m, the same plane, (Enola Gay) dropped the second Atomic Bomb over Nagasaki.

  • World War II ends

    World War II ends
    Japan surrenders and World War II is over for good.