This day in 1945 marked the first detonation of a U.S. atomic weapon under the Manhatten Project in the so-called Trinity test. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the director of the ...
It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as waves of destructive energy obliterated two cites. It was a decisive move that helped ...
A mockup of the "Gadget" that was detonated during the Trinity Test in 1945, marking the world's first atomic explosion, is on display on July 15, 2020, at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and ...
Downwinder Paul Pino heads through the SALA Event Center toward the screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo ...
Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...
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