On July 16, 1945, a brilliant flash on a quiet reach of desert in Alamogordo New Mexico changed the world; the Nuclear Age began. ... The Nuclear Age was born from the destruction of World War II. ... From this same fury and disturbance of war came other creations which were more optimistic. ... The final site for manufacture of the atomic bomb ended with a laboratory at Los Alamos located in New Mexico. ... The first bomb was exploded in a field test at Alamogordo air base in South New Mexico. ...

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His team, working in several locations but in large part at Los Alamos, New Mexico, under the direction of American physicist J. ... The huge mushroom-shaped radioactive cloud climbed forty two thousand feet into the New Mexico sky. ... Roosevelt's thought went beyond the use of the atomic bomb as a weapon of war. ... This all happened during the Cold War, a period of forty-five years (1947-1991), between mainly the two superpowers (United States and the Soviet Union). ... "War Department Release on New Mexico Test, July 16, 1945." 1995-2002: March 20th 2003 ...

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Just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. ... Styer called the Manhattan Project "the most important job in the war . . . an all-out effort to build an atomic bomb."... (Outlaw 3) Once the purified Uranium reached New Mexico, it was made into the components of a gun-type atomic weapon. ... On Monday, July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 A.M., Mountain War Time, the plutonium bomb ignited at the Trinity site, a remote site in the New Mexico desert. ... Brigadier General Farrell wrote a letter for the Secretary of War. ...

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The entire world is at peace- General Macarthur (September 2, 1945) The years that encompassed the last great World War, chronicles the worst that human nature has to offer. ... Many objected because it would be more lives lost to an already brutally gory war. Others believed that this would be the only way to end the war, that the shedding of American blood was ludicrous when there was a to save it. ... It is in my opinion that dropping an experimental bomb, unexpectedly on a war torn country is no better than is no better or more humane than mowing Jews in war-torn Germany and Poland. ....

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Aside from the ground test in the New Mexico desert, no one knew what destruction atomic weapons were capable of. Throughout the war, the city of Hiroshima had been left virtually untouched by U.S. attacks. ... For example, the atomic bomb was tested in Trinity Site, New Mexico, USA. ... The US wanted a quick and effective way to end the war. ... It is possible that Japan would have ended the war themselves, without the U.S. ever having to use nuclear force. ...

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The first test was conducted July 16, 1945 at the Trinity Test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico. With this, and several other events, the Cold War had begun. ... These are particularly important in light of recent events in the Global War on Terrorism. ... Nuclear capabilities clearly saved our nation during the Cold War and through the early 1990s; however, in today's changing world is the capability necessary? ...

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Places like the University of Chicago, Oakridge Tennessee, Hanford Washington, and a remote lab in Los Alamos New Mexico all took part. ... The test, code name "Trinity," occurred on July 16, 1945 in the New Mexico desert town of Alamogordo. ... Truman chose to use the first atomic bomb ever to be used in war. ... American Civil War General Robert E. ... Both were active working parts of the Japanese war effort. ...

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Nuclear war was brought about through the invention of the atomic bomb. ... The bomb was tested in northern New Mexico on July 16th, 1945. ... The testing of the bomb in New Mexico was the first detonation, however it was not the last (Serendipity: Manhattan Project para.10). ... After the war many Hiroshima citizens felt the building should be torn down. ...

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He sided with the republic during the Civil War in Spain in 1936. ... He named Oppenheimer the scientific director of the whole program and they both decided, in 1943, that Los Alamos, New Mexico would be the site for the nuclear weapons laboratory. ... On July 16, 1945, the united effort of scientists at Los Alamos resulted in the first nuclear explosion at Alamogordo, New Mexico after the surrender of Germany. ... He said, "If atomic bombs are to be added to the arsenals of the world, or the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the name of...

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America had begun an expensive program to create an atomic bomb which was built in New Mexico, 1945. ... By detonating the atomic bomb over Hiroshima the Americans achieved the following: • Stopping the war, which America declared on Japan, but Japan began. ...

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The Manhattan Project was the American effort to harness the power of atoms and apply it to a modern war effort, through a chain reaction of Uranium 235 isotopes (and later Plutonium). ... Eventually, through about two months of construction at the Jornado del Muerto desert in central New Mexico, codenamed "Trinity" by Oppenheimer, the atomic implosion bomb was ready to test in July of 1945. ... Due to heavy rains, and thus the fear that the fission components of the bomb could not work under such conditions, the explosion was delayed until 5:10 AM, and the governor of New Mexico was warned ...

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Did America need to use the Atomic Bomb to end World War II? ... So, the United States started supplying China with war gear. ... The first atomic bomb was successfully exploded on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. ... World War Two was the worst war in history. ... Though the use of the atomic bomb was necessary to end the war because if they did not use it then the war probably would have gone on and on. ...

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The work was done in what is called a self - imposed blackout on publication in order to keep German scientists from using the work of U.S. scientists to speed up the development of their bomb, and get the advantage of the United States in the war. ... The first test was conducted in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico at a site called Trinity. ... Aioi bridge was set as the target for the bomb, and at 0815 hours, the bomb was dropped from the war plane, the Enola Gay. ...

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