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The second World War (1939 - 1945) ended after USA dropped atom bombs on the two cities called Hiroshima and Nagasaki of japan. Japan was not ready to surrender. So American dropped an atom bomb on August 6, 1945 at Hiroshima.

This bomb was equivalent to 20 kilo ton of T.N.T and was dropped from a height of 1800 feet. It killed 80,000 and 70,000 people were injured due to its impact. Again on August 9 at Nagasaki, Americans dropped another bomb made of plutonium which killed 40,000 men and injured about 25,000 people.

Who made this bomb? Who invented it? It is attributed to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), the American scientist. He neither made the bomber develop the formula for making it. A team of scientists led by him developed the bomb.

In 1941, Oppenheimer joined the American project on the development of atom bomb. He supervised the team in Los Alamos. He was appointed as the chief science director of the Manhattan project.

Under his guidance scientists worked and successfully made the atom bomb and tested it on July 16, 1945 in the northern desert 320km away from Los Alamos.