The frontline for research and construction was the Los Alamos Laboratory, formerly a boy's ranch school that was purchased by Oppenheimer. ... Seconds after the explosion came first the air blast pressing hard against the people, to be followed almost immediately by the strong, sustained awesome roar that warned of doomsday and made us feel we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved for the Almighty.2 It is amazing to note the speed of which the Americans first created the atomic bomb. ... Meanwhile, Los Alamos was finalizing the Uranium bom...

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As scheduled, the Enola Gay took off of the Tinian runway at 2:45 am, sharp, and began its course over the Black Sea. ... Exactly 60 seconds after the activation, the world's first atomic bomb, ironically nicknamed Little Boy, began its fall towards the ground. ...

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