Today in History
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Today in History |
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July 16, 1945 |
On July 16, 1945, at 5:30 a.m. southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, the United States conducted the world's first test of an atomic bomb. The resulting explosion was the equivalent to 20 thousand tons of TNT. The shock wave was felt as much as 100 miles away. A few weeks later, a similar bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, and another on Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ending World War II. "I have become as death, the destoyer of worlds." - Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the team that developed the first atomic bomb, quoting the Hindu Bhagavad Gita.
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