Hiroshima

		Hiroshima
Home		The bombing on Hiroshima was on August 6 of 1945. It is said that Hiroshima was chosen because of its size, being an “important army depot.” The a-bomb in this city inflicted up to 300,000 deaths, which include deaths to radiation over the subsequent 20 years. Fat Man, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima The damage range of Hiroshima	"A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast... We turned back to look at Hiroshima . The city was hidden by that awful cloud... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall." - Colonel Paul Tibbets The destruction of the a-bomb on Hiroshima
	Introduction
America's Place in the War
	The Manhattan Project
Progress in the War
	Completion of the A-Bomb
Dropping of the A-Bomb
	Hiroshima
Nagasaki
	After the Bomb
Impact of the A-Bomb
	Analysis
Timeline
	Process Paper