THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA, JAPAN

MANHATTAN PROJECT

• Started in 1942
• Created Atomic Weapons
• Lead by General Leslie Groves and Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer

TRINITY BOMB

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LITTLE BOY

• 9,000 pounds
• Uranium-type bomb
• First atomic bomb to be used in war
• 15 kilotons or 15,000 tons of TNT

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CRASH ON TINIAN

HIROSHIMA

• 300,000 citizens and 43,000 military
• At 7:30 a.m. there was an air raid alarm
• Just a weather plane

THE BOMBING

THE BOMBING

• Occurred at 8:15 AM
• 45-second drop time
• Exploded around 1,900 feet over the center of the city

THE BOMBING (PT 2)

• 9,000-degree heat
• 1,000-mph winds
• 1,200-feet-per-second heat waves
• Destroyed almost everything within one mile from ground zero

LONG-TERM EFFECTS

RADIOACTIVE DISEASES

• Killed 100,000
• Caused face deformation, skin removal, and hair loss
• 3-4 weeks after the bombing the most deaths occurred
• 7-8 weeks after the bombing was when the least deaths occurred
• 52 out of 55 hospitals were destroyed

PHOTOS OF THE AFTERMATH

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HIROSHIMA TODAY

CONCLUSION