The bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki with the Fat Man plutonium bomb device on , caused terrible human devastation and helped end World War II The Target Committee appointed by President Harry Truman to decide which Japanese cities would receive the Little Boy and Fat Man atomic bombings did not place6 and 9 August 1945 Hiroshima / Nagasaki The test site after detonation a crater of fused soil, also known as "Trinite" radiates from ground zero On 16 July 1945, US scientists working on the Manhattan Project successfully detonated the firstever nuclear explosion in the ' Trinity ' test at Alamogordo, New MexicoThe United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of
Image Of Nagasaki Atom Bomb 1945 The Mushroom Cloud Of The Atomic Bomb Over Nagasaki Japan August 9 1945 Oil Over A Photograph From Granger Historical Picture Archive