The ABomb Development Deployment Einstein to FDR August

The A-Bomb: Development & Deployment

Einstein to FDR August 2, 1939

Manhattan Project

Manhattan Project Facilities

How Stuff Works

How Stuff Works

The Gadget

Trinity Test Tower National Nuclear Security Administration

Trinity Test Preparation DOE Photo

Trinity Test July 16, 1945

Trinity Test July 16, 1945 Video: History of Trinity (3: 06)

Col. Paul Tibbets Commander, 509 th Composite Group 1915 - 2007

B-29 Enola Gay “The Beginning of the End” by William Phillips

Tinian University of Hawaii Library

Enola Gay 509 th aircraft flew with different unit markings ww 2 incolor

Little Boy

Little Boy Gun-Triggered Fission Bomb

Assembling Little Boy

Loading Little Boy bomb in loading pit atomicarchive. com

Loading Little Boy bomb in loading pit National Security Archive

Loading Little Boy Enola Gay being positioned over loading pit Cletac. org

Loading Little Boy being raised into bomb bay of Enola Gay National Security Archive

Col. Paul Tibbets 509 th Composite Group commander prior to takeoff, August 6, 1945 atomicarchive. com

Hiroshima August 6, 1945 80, 000 killed initially 60, 000 died in following months

Enola Gay Returning to Tinian, 6 August 1945 National Air & Space Museum

Fat Man Implosion-Triggered Fission Bomb

Fat Man

Nagasaki August 9, 1945 B-29 “Bock’s Car” Aircraft Commander: Major Charles Sweeney Primary target: Kokura Secondary: Nagasaki

Nagasaki August 9, 1945 75, 000 dead

Atomic Missions August 6 & 9, 1945

Nagasaki August 5, 1945

Nagasaki Post Strike

Nagasaki BBC video (4: 51) Alt You. Tube

Nagasaki Video Film shot by Lt. Bill Camp, US Army, GT Ch. E ‘ 48 16 Sep 1945

Japanese Surrender August 15, 1945 Truman Announces Japanese Surrender Announcement & Celebration (6: 44)

Mac. Arthur Lands in Japan Arrival at Atsugi AB, 30 Aug. 1945

Surrender Ceremony Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945 Newsreel - 8: 36

Victory in the Pacific Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945 Naval Historical Center

Post-War Japan General Douglas Mac. Arthur & Emperor Hirohito

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