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Recent Event Highlights: The Manhattan Project ends., Japan announces its formal surrender. , The second atomic bomb to hit Japan, Fat Man, was scheduled to be dropped at Kokura. However, because of poor weather the target was moved to Nagasaki. , Little Boy, a uranium bomb, is detonated over Hiroshima, Japan. It kills between 90,000 and 100,000 people immediately. Harry Truman's Press Release , Potsdam Declaration is rejected by Japan. , Potsdam Declaration is issued, calling for the 'unconditional surrender of Japan'. , and 6 more...

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Last updated: 01/26/11 at 08:00 PM

• The Manhattan Project ends.
  Oct 1, 1945

• Japan announces its formal surrender.
  Sep 2, 1945

• The second atomic bomb to hit Japan, Fat Man, was scheduled to be dropped at Kokura. However, bec...
  Aug 9, 1945

• Little Boy, a uranium bomb, is detonated over Hiroshima, Japan. It kills between 90,000 and 100,0...
  Aug 6, 1945

• Potsdam Declaration is rejected by Japan.
  Jul 28, 1945

• Potsdam Declaration is issued, calling for the 'unconditional surrender of Japan'.
  Jul 26, 1945

• President Truman orders atomic bombs to be used.
  Jul 21, 1945

• The world's first atomic detonation takes place in the 'Trinity Test' at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
  Jul 16, 1945

• Leo Szilard begins a petition to get President Truman to call off using the atomic bomb in Japan.
  Jul 1, 1945

• Leo Szilard attempts to warn President Truman in person concerning the dangers of atomic weapons.
  May 25, 1945

• War ends in Europe.
  May 8, 1945

• The Target Committee of the Manhattan Project select four cities as possible targets for the atom...
  Apr 27, 1945

• Franklin Roosevelt dies. Harry Truman is named the 33rd President of the US.
  Apr 12, 1945

• Japan becomes the primary target for any future atomic bomb according to the Military Policy Comm...
  May 5, 1943

• First controlled nuclear fission reaction is produced by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago.
  Dec 2, 1942

• Colonel Leslie Groves is placed in charge of the Manhattan Project. J. Robert Oppenheimer becomes...
  Sep 23, 1942

• FDR authorizes the Manhattan Engineering District for the purpose of creating an atomic bomb. Thi...
  Dec 6, 1941

• FDR gives the go-ahead for the development of an atomic weapon.
  Oct 9, 1941

• World War II Begins.
  Sep 1, 1939

• Albert Einstein writes to President Franklin Roosevelt concerning the use of uranium as a new sou...
  Aug 2, 1939

• Robert Oppenheimer realizes the military possibilities of nuclear fission.
  Jan 29, 1939