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 light was so bright that citizens from faraway communities saw the flash, and even more astonishing was the fact that a blind girl saw the flash from 120 miles away(Documentation 2). ... "The whole valley is filled with a garish light," said Father P. ...

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His second Theory was The Quantum Law of the Emission and Absorption of Light where energy could exist in form of little packets or quantas (Candee 179). ... "His third theory entitled Theory of Brownian Movement gave a mathematical formula predicting the path distance and relative speed of minute particles suspend in liquid- (Candee 179). ...

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Only the words of General Thomas Farrel, present at the site, could fully explain the magnitude of the situation; he wrote: [The] whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. ... It lighted every peak, crevasse and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described but must be seen to be imagined. 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...

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There was a tremendous fireball of white light. ... After the bomb was dropped, he described the blast: "...a giant ball of fire rose as though from the bowels (and) a giant pillar of purple fire ...shooting skyward with enormous speed." ...

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States have had to become increasingly more diplomatic, shying away from the topics of war and attempting to see their one-time foes in a more amiable light. ... These along with nuclear missiles can travel at jet-speeds of around 500mph. ...

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