During World War II, U.S Marines had captured the Japanese Imperial on the island of Iwo Jima. The battle began February 19, 1945- March 26, 1945. In this battle about 7,000 U.S Marines were killed out of 70,000 soldiers. Marines had captured 216 Japanese soldiers, and the rest were killed. This battle had been one of the bloodiest battles in the Marine corps history. A photo had been taken that quickly flooded the newspapers. The famous picture is U.S marine soldiers doing the flag-raising atop
to such a ferocious act? Well before that day the father of “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” (the two atomic bombs detonated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki) was the “Gadget”, which was birthed from the first nuclear weapon detonation The Trinity Project. This paper will discuss the accounts of the initial nuclear testing that birthed the subsequent nuclear weapon, the magnitude of the explosion, the politics that went into the decision to support this project,
early hours of July 16, 1945, great fear and excitement were out of hand at the White Sand Missile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The director of the Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer was nervous because all the years of secrecy, test and research were riding on that moment. “The last few moments he glared directly at the scene and when the announcer shouted now there was a burst of light followed immediately after by a deep growling of the explosion, his face relaxed into an expression of