Nuclear bombs

By erpq6

  • Beginnings of the bomb

    In 1938, inside a laboratory in Berlin, Germany, Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassman discovered nuclear fission, which was how nuclear bombs worked. https://www.history.com/articles/atomic-bomb-history

  • USA begins to work

    The famous scientist, Albert Einstein, sent a letter to US president FDR. He authorizes the Manhattan project.

  • Manhattan Project

    The Manhattan project was the efforts of many scientists working in secret to create a nuclear bomb out of the fear that the Nazis might get one first.