home • feedback • site map

 

General Resources | WWII: Birth of the Bomb | Postwar America & the Bomb
Manhattan Project & Trinity Test | Truman's Decision | Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Primary Sources | Web Site Lists & Directories

World War II: Birth of the Bomb

A replica of "Fat Man," the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. (Reproduced from Atomicarchive.com.)

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Atomic Bomb in World War II
Peruse links to web sites and primary source material relating to the development and use of the atomic bomb in World War II on this page, created by Professor Vincent Ferraro of Mt. Holyoke College.

See also:

• Manhattan Project & Trinity Test
• Truman's Decision
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki