1. THE DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB

2. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER DIRECTED THE CONSTRUCTION, COMPLETION AND TESTING OF THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB IN LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO CALLED THE MANHATTAN PROJECT

4. “LITTLE BOY” “LITTLE BOY” DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA, AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE MILITARY CENTER “FAT MAN” DROPPED ON NAGASAKI

5. THE MANHATTAN PROJECT RECEIVED THE HIGHEST PRIORITY FROM FDR BETWEEN 1942- 1945 THE US SPENT $2 BILLION TO BUILD 3 BOMBS 37 FACTORIES IN 19 STATES AND CANADA

6. THE CREATION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB THE BEST-KEPT SECRET OF THE WAR WORK ON THE BOMB BEGAN IN 1942 VICE PRESIDENT TRUMAN DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE BOMB.

7. THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS

8. LESLIE GROVES/ROBERT OPPENHEIMER GROVES WAS THE MILITARY ORGANIZER OF THE PROJECT HE HAD TWO GIGANTIC ATOMIC REACTORS BUILT AT OAK RIDGE TENN, AND HANFORD WASHINGTON

9. TESTING THE BOMB MAYBE IT WOULDN’T WORK MAYBE IT IS NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH MAYBE IT WOULD SET FIRE TO THE ATMOSPHERE AND END THE EARTH

10. GROUND ZERO SCORCHING HEAT THAT ROLLED OUTWARD IN WAVES THE SAND FUSED INTO GLASS PELLETS THE TOWER WAS VAPORIZED A QUARTER MILE CRATER DEVELOPED

11. WATCHING THE BLAST

12. SECRETARY OF WAR HENRY STIMSON NOT LONG AFTER TRUMAN TOOK OFFICE, STIMSON HANDED HIM A MEMO THAT TOLD OF THE RESEARCH BEING CONDUCTED ON BUILDING A BOMB

13. POTSDAM GERMANY GROVES WIRED THE NEWS OF THE BOMB’S SUCCESS HALFWAY AROUND THE GLOBE TO PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN TRUMAN WAS A CHANGED MAN

14. TO BOMB OR NOT TO BOMB LEO SZILARD DREW UP A PETITION SIGNED BY 70 SCIENTISTS IT WOULD BE IMMORAL TO DROP AN ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN WITHOUT FAIR WARNING

15. OPTIONS STAGE A DEMONSTRATION OF THE BOMB FOR JAPANESE LEADERS OPPENHEIMER’S OBJECTIONS

16. HENRY STIMSON “I believe than no man, holding in his hands a weapon of such possibilities for accomplishing this purpose & saving those lives,could have failed to use it and afterwards look his countrymen in the face”

17. IKE “I told him (Stimson) I was against it on two counts. First the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing, Second,I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.”

18. RALPH BARD ‘I have a feeling that before the bomb is actually used against Japan, that Japan should have some preliminary warning of say 2 or 3 days in advance.”

19. JAMES FRANCK “If the US were to be the first to release this new means of indiscriminate destruction upon mankind, she would sacrifice public support throughout the world, and precipitate the race for armaments.”

20. WHY DID WE DROP THE BOMB? CASUALTY FIGURES FROM IWO JIM AND OKINAWA THE COST OF BUILDING THE BOMB THE SOVIETS

21. THE ENOLA GAY AUGUST 6,1945 THE B-29 BOMBER NAMED THE ENOLA GAY RELEASED AN ATOMIC BOMB CODE-NAMED “LITTLE BOY” OVER HIROSHIMA

22. HIROSHIMA

24. HIROSHIMA IN RUINS

25. HIROSHIMA

26. NAGASAKI JAPANESE LEADERS STILL REFUSED TO SURRENDER 3 DAYS LATER “FAT MAN” WAS DROPPED ON NAGASAKI (August 8,1945) GREAT ARTISTE

27. SURRENDER