... days in order to finish the project. In 1945, President Truman had received some unsettling news, the bombs had been finished. 3 bombs had been produced, and it was time to test them to see if they had been successful in creating a nuclear weapon. The government had chosen a site in New Mexico called the Trinity Testing Site in Alamogordo. On July 16th ... of the possibility for severe American casualties. Truman had weighed the issues and decided to drop the 1st bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. On August 6th 1945, a plane named the Enola Gay, flew over Hiroshima and at 8:15 am one minute afte...

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... was to be controlled by neutron absorbing rods that were inserted in holes in the graphite house. One of Fermi's technicians was to pull out one of the rods, to test the reaction of the structure. The farther the rod was pulled out, the louder the clicking noise got. The nuclear reaction had been successful and told the technician to push ... scientists congratulated each other because the nuclear bomb had been a success. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb called "Little boy" on Japan in Hiroshima. The Enola Gay, which has a scout plane, dropped the bomb at appr...

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