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Manhattan Project

Manhattan Project  Einstein’s letter to Roosevelt  Beware of atomic power!  We must beat the Germans!  Atomic bomb project codename: Manhattan Project  Robert Oppenheimer in charge  Super TOP SECRET  Russian spies  First test in 1945 near Los Alamos, NM

Hiroshima - 90,000 to 100,000 persons were killed immediately - 145,000 persons perish from the bombing by the end of Nagasaki Leveled Area: 6.7 million square meters Damaged Houses: 18,409 Casualties Killed ,884 Injured ,909 Total ,793 (Large numbers of people died in the following years from the effects of radioactive poisoning.)

Nuclear Strikes Aug 6, Uranium bomb “Little Boy” dropped on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 Aug 9, Plutonium bomb “Fat Man” dropped on Nagasaki, killing 74,000

The Cost 2,000,000 Japanese Soldiers dead 300,000 Allied Soldiers dead 600, ,000,000 Japanese civilians dead 11,000 American civilians dead 60,000 Korean civilians dead Mass devastation of Japanese infrastructure Indigenous people of north and western Pacific islands devastated by disease, cultural contamination, collateral damage, and atrocities. The list continues…

Japan Surrenders Representatives of Japan’s Foreign Ministry, Army and Navy appear to sign the surrender aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay

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