On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom Bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico desert when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos on the barren plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto. Inspired by the poetryof John Donne, J. Robert Oppenheimer code-named the test Trinity. Hoisted atop a 100-foot tower, the plutonium device, or Gadget, detonated releasing 18.6 kilotons of power, instantly vaporizing the tower and turning the surrounding asphalt Plans for the creation of a uranium bomb by the Allies were established as early as 1939, when Italian emigre physicist Enrico Fermi met with U.S. Navy department officials at Columbia University to discuss the use of fissionable materials for military purposes. That same year, Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt supporting the theory that an uncontrolled nuclear chain re...
JOIN OUR TELEGRAMTV HERE tie-RAN-oh-sore-us 'tyrant lizard' COMMON NAME: Tyrannosaurus Rex SCIENTIFIC NAME: Tyrannosaurus rex TYPE: Prehistoric Animals DIET: Carnivore SIZE: 40 feet long; 15 to 20 feet tall SIZE RELATIVE TO A BUS: Tyrannosaurus rex (rex meaning "king" in Latin), often called T. rex or colloquially T-Rex, is one of the most well-represented of the large theropods. Tyrannosaurus lived throughout what is now western North America, on what was then an island continent known as Laramidia.They lived through the Maastrichtianage of the upper Cretaceous period, 68 to 66 million years ago. It was the last known member of the tyrannosaurids, and among the last non-avian dinosaurs to exist before the Cretaceous–paleogene extinction event.Tyrannosaurus was a bipedal carnivorewith a massive skull balanced by a long, heavy tail. Relative to its large and powerful hind limbs, Tyrannosaurusforelimbs were short but unusually powerful for their size ...