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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Unknowingly they came to an isolated mountain setting, known as Los Alamos, New Mexico, to design and build the bomb that would end World War 2, but begin serious controversies concerning its sheer power and destruction. ... It seemed an appropriate topic because I am presently studying World War 2 in my history Class. ... The Manhattan Project was the code name for the US effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. ... The result was tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, and was the first explosion of an atomic bomb code-named Trinity (Beyer 55). ... It was the fi...

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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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The atomic bombs were being developed to use against Japan towards the end of World War II.  ... On 16 July 1945, the scientists did its first trial of the bomb in the New Mexico desert. ... The war was going to end anyway, but the amount of deaths was high from the use of the atomic bombs. ... He wanted to end the war before the USSR could enter the war in the Pacific and claim the lands that were promised to them at Yalta (Walker 157). ... The show of force by the U.S. was the only way to ensure a quick resolution to ending the war. ...

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Roosevelt declared war against Japan. At first the war in the Pacific did not go well for the Americans. ... There was a 39% death rate of Prisoners of War in Japan compared to 1% in Germany. ... The Potsdam Conference opened in mid-July 1945, the day after the President learned about the successful test explosion of an atomic bomb in a remote area in New Mexico. ... On August 15th, Japan surrendered and the war was over. ...

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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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In the middle of war, the higher ups in the government and military like to think they have the knowledge of all aspects of what is going on in the world of war. This thinking might stand true with today's technology but during the war time of the Bombing of Japan this was not the case. ... This war was the perfect opportunity to do this and have it be "justified". ... Tests conducted in the desert at an area they called Jornada del Muerto (Journey of the Dead) near New Mexico. ... The Prime Minister had even said that they were surrendering due to the horrific toll the non-stop...

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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 first atomic bomb, which was tested on July 16, 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico, represented a completely new type of explosive. ... The Minuteman III is being retained largely because of entrenched interests in maintaining the Cold War construct of the U.S. nuclear triad (Friedman). ... The first use of nuclear weapons in a war was when American forces bombed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW II. ... As Cobb points out, (28) in the 20th century, chemicals such as Chlorine were used by the Germans extensively as battlefield weapons in World War I (1914-1918) and the by the Ir...

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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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