July 16, 1945 –
…If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One – I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds…. – thus began the Atomic Age.
Fittingly, in a desert named Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death,) code-named Trinity, the first experimental plutonium bomb (The Gadget) was detonated in a United States test of an atomic explosion at Alamogordo Air Base, Los Alamos, New Mexico on this date. The explosion yields the equivalent 18,000 tons of TNT.
And so it goes
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