Kistiakowsky and Oppenheimer both argued for such a test, but initially Groves was opposed. He was afraid that if the test failed, the precious plutonium would be scattered all across the countryside."... Hanford's plutonium production was increasing fast enough so that a test would cause little delay in time. ... "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." ... At 0815 hours the bomb was dropped from the Enola Gay. ...

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