4 real historical locations · Japan, United States
A dramatisation of the Manhattan Project focusing on the relationship between General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer as they raced to build the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. It explores the moral and political tensions that would reshape the post-war world.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Japan, United States.
The 1989 film dramatises the Manhattan Project's internal conflicts — between General Leslie Groves's military priorities and the moral doubts of the scienti...
The Manhattan Project involved over 130,000 people at sites across the US and Canada at a cost of $2 billion (roughly $23 billion today). 'Fat Man' (plutonium implosion, dropped on Nagasaki) and 'Little Boy' (uranium ...
View location →The Jornada del Muerto desert where the world's first nuclear bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 — the moment the atomic age began.
The Trinity test detonated a plutonium implosion device equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT. The flash was seen 160 miles away. Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad Gita: 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' The ...
View location →The B-29 base from which Enola Gay and Bockscar took off to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
North Field on Tinian was the world's busiest airfield in 1945, launching hundreds of B-29 raids against Japan. The atomic bombs were assembled in specially constructed pits and loaded directly into the aircraft. The ...
View location →The target city — destroyed in an instant on August 6, 1945 by the 'Little Boy' uranium bomb dropped from Enola Gay at 8:15 AM.
The Hiroshima bomb killed between 90,000 and 166,000 people immediately and in the following months. The Aioi Bridge was the aiming point. The Genbaku Dome — the only building near the hypocenter left standing — is no...
View location →