World War II Technology in Fahrenheit 451. By: Rob Zakotnik, Pat Khoury, Matt Renaldo, Kaitlyn Jones

A Little Background on the War Destroyed and killed more property and people than any other war in history. There was a combined death toll of around fifty to sixty million people The war brought a downfall to Western Europe powers including Germany Sixty years ago, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The nuclear age had truly begun

The Atomic Bomb Research began in Germany in the late 1930’s Two physicists found that energy is released in great amounts in a process called fission Defined as an explosive device that releases nuclear energy Technology showed an advancement. Instead of rapid burning or decomposition, the atomic bomb split an atom, in a process called fission.

The Manhattan Project On 16 July 1945 at 5:30 pm, in the desert near Alamogordo, the first atomic bomb was tested successfully