1. Decision A Development of the bomb started in May 1942
Code name – Manhattan project
Cost $2.5 billion
Required the construction of the biggest industrial complex ever built – Los Alamos, New Mexico
Employed over 100,000 people – most of whom didn’t know what they were working on due to strict secrecy
Top scientists: Erico Fermi, Niels Bor, J.Robert Oppenheimer
First nuclear reactor under football stadium – University of Chicago
July 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico – first successful test

2. Decision B
FDR dies April 12, 1945 and Harry Truman is sworn in as president
Aug Enola Gay B-29 dropped the 5 ton weapon – Little Boy – dropped on Hiroshima
Aug – Fat Man – Nagasaki
Aug 14 VJ Day

15. Decision C Oppenheimer –
“I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTORY OF WORLDS” – Baghavad Gita