***Some Spoilers***Released less then two years after it was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in the movie "The Beginning or the End" were told was sealed in a time capsule under a three thousand year old RedWood Tree to be opened in the year 2446 for future generations, if anyone is still around by then, to see. Still those of us who can watch it now are told the story of the "Big One" or Atomic Bomb that was dropped on that city in August 1945 that changed the world forever. From the time that Dr. Albert Einstein, known as the smartest man in the whole wide world, sent an urgent letter, in broken English, to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, known then as the most powerful man in the whole wide world, about developing the "Big One" or "Big Enchilada" as it was called before Hitler's Germany did to it's finial detonation over the city of Hiroshima, and all points in between, six years later. It was a race against the clock in Germany as the movie tells us had a full, about two years, head start against us.
With the best brains working on developing the "Bomb" under the command of Major General Leslie Grove it luckily wasn't used against Nazi Germany, the far more dangerous of the axis powers, who it was planned to be since Germany had already surrendered in May 1945. So the then president, who replaced FDR after his unexpected death in April 1945, Harry S. (For Nothing) Truman had no choice but to have it dropped on Imperial Japan who was already on the brink, through secret behind the scenes negations, of surrendering anyway! The "Bomb" and the one that followed it three days later on August 9, 1945 that obliterated the Japanese city of Nagasaki did the trick in finally bringing the Japanese Government to its senses and overriding the fanatical and suicidal fight to the last man and woman Japanese military, with the Emperor stepping in, and finally calling it, WWII, quites!
There's also the human interest story about lovebirds USAAF scientist Matt Cochran and his lovely wife Anne who was just before he was to be discharged was called back to duty on the island of Tinian in the Marianas to help construct the "Bomb". It was the heroic Matt Cochran in preventing it from going off prematurely and blowing the island and its 40,000 US military personal off the map who willingly gave up his life, in contracting radiation poisoning,in preventing It from happening! We later see the B29 super-fortress Enola Gay taking off at what look like high noon, it actually departed at 2:45 AM, for its flight into history. Dropping the "Big One" at precisely 8:15 AM Japanese time and detonating 44 seconds, some 3,000 feet above ground zero, later and thus changing the world forever: For better or for worse!
With the best brains working on developing the "Bomb" under the command of Major General Leslie Grove it luckily wasn't used against Nazi Germany, the far more dangerous of the axis powers, who it was planned to be since Germany had already surrendered in May 1945. So the then president, who replaced FDR after his unexpected death in April 1945, Harry S. (For Nothing) Truman had no choice but to have it dropped on Imperial Japan who was already on the brink, through secret behind the scenes negations, of surrendering anyway! The "Bomb" and the one that followed it three days later on August 9, 1945 that obliterated the Japanese city of Nagasaki did the trick in finally bringing the Japanese Government to its senses and overriding the fanatical and suicidal fight to the last man and woman Japanese military, with the Emperor stepping in, and finally calling it, WWII, quites!
There's also the human interest story about lovebirds USAAF scientist Matt Cochran and his lovely wife Anne who was just before he was to be discharged was called back to duty on the island of Tinian in the Marianas to help construct the "Bomb". It was the heroic Matt Cochran in preventing it from going off prematurely and blowing the island and its 40,000 US military personal off the map who willingly gave up his life, in contracting radiation poisoning,in preventing It from happening! We later see the B29 super-fortress Enola Gay taking off at what look like high noon, it actually departed at 2:45 AM, for its flight into history. Dropping the "Big One" at precisely 8:15 AM Japanese time and detonating 44 seconds, some 3,000 feet above ground zero, later and thus changing the world forever: For better or for worse!