The Manhattan Project
- American plan to develop nuclear weapons
- Run by Robert Oppenheimer, an american Jew
- Developed three bombs in 1945, "Trinity", "Little Boy" and "Fat Man"
- "Little Boy" was a uranium bomb thats was detonated over Hiroshima
- "Fat Man" was a plutonium bomb dropped over Nagasaki
This was a massive undertaking and involved lots of secrets. Its it debated whether or not dropping the bombs was beneficial or not in the end. These bombs were dropped 3 days apart ; Little Boy killed 100 000 people in hiroshima instantly, Fat Man killed almost 70 000 in Nagasaki. The Emperor of Japan was the one who changed their war like ways by doing the "unthinkable" and surrendering.
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