The atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945 - also known as Trinity - occurred only 3 weeks before the bombing of Hiroshima and only 7 weeks before the end of the war. Looking at it as the midpoint of that summer, it was only one of many signficant events in the last three months of World War II. I've started a project looking at each of those days, to create a view of that time, to better understand what went into the decision to create and use the atomic bomb, and how people around the world reacted to it. Starting from Memorial Day, at the end of May 1945, and continuing through Labor Day- the day after the official Japanese surrender -  it will look at every single day, finding something something signifcant, or at least noteworthy.   There's Klaus Fuchs, meeting with Harry Gold in Santa Fe on June 2, to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Or Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, killed on Okinawa on June 18. The first troops returning from Europe on July 1.  President Truman leaving for Potsdam on July 7. Clement Atlee winning the election in the United Kingdom on July 26, replacing Churchill as Prime Minister. The bombing of Hiroshima. The August Revolution in Vietnam. The Occupation of Japan starting on August 28. The short ceremony ending the war on September 2nd - a quiet Sunday in a Tokyo Bay, not unlike one four years earlier.  

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