There were battles and military posts in surprising places. Every major country of the time was involved in the war. Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in By Japan controlled large sections of China and accusations of war crimes against the Chinese people became commonplace.
At this time, several treaties were in place to limit the size of navies in the Pacific Ocean. In , Japan ended its cooperation with other major powers in the Pacific by withdrawing from the Five Power Treaty. The United States, along with other countries, criticized Japanese aggression but shied away from any economic or military punishments. Relations between the United States and Japan worsened when Japanese forces took aim at Indochina with the goal of capturing oil rich areas of the East Indies.
Responding to this threat, the United States placed an embargo on scrap metal, oil, and aviation fuel heading to Japan and froze Japanese assets in the United States. The cannon ball was another subcritical mass of uranium, which fit perfectly into the hollow of the target as a plug. The plug was propelled down the cannon barrel by several thousand pounds of high explosive. When it hit, the combination of compression and increased mass pushed the uranium to the supercritical level and the bomb went off.
The atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, is seen before being loaded into Enola Gay's bomb bay on Tinian. When Truman took over as President, he had never heard about the program that was going on to build atomic bombs.
About three months after Truman became President, the Trinity Test took place. The Trinity Test was the code name given when the first atomic bomb was successfully blown up in the New Mexico desert. The Trinity Test proved that atomic bombs would work, if they were needed to be used in war. Having been told about the successful Trinity Test of an atomic bomb, President Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Japan on August 6, It was his hope that the power of the bomb and the damage it would cause might be enough for the Japanese to stop fighting and surrender.
It killed about 80, people when it blew up. Putty is applied to the forward plate. The sealant has been applied. Note the signatures on the tail assembly and the "bomb" on the worker's shirt. Fat Man is lowered on to a transport dolly for the trip to the airfield. Note the signatures on the tail assembly. Signatures on Fat Man's tail assembly. You can see the small signature of "W. Preliminary pit alignment. Fat Man is manually pushed to the bomb pit.
Fat Man's alignment with the bomb pit is checked. The towing cable is disconnected. Note the MPs keeping guard.
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