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...
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