... power of about 20,000 tons of TNT. On July 16, 1945, in Alamogordo, New Mexico a test was run on the new plutonium implosion bomb to see if the plutonium would correctly fission. The Trinity test was accomplished and the explosion created a flash that was seen at least three states away. General George C. ... the war. The bomb that dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th 1945, weighed 4.5 tons. At 8:15 in the morning the bomb was dropped from the Enola Gay and missed ground zero at 1,980 feet by only 600 feet. In a flash of an instant, 66,00 people were killed and 69,000 people were ... in de...

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... , at a site called Trinity in south central New Mexico, a plutonium bomb was assembled and brought to the top of a tower. At 5:29:45 AM (local time) The bomb was detonated. It produced an intense flash and a fireball that expanded 600 meters in two seconds, and yielded an explosion which was ... the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the build up to these chilling events , and some information about nuclear weapons in the world today. The test was first set for 3 days earlier, but it had been delayed due to thunderstorms The trinity bomb as it is now called let off an ... more accurate d...

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... Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves, the man the army placed in charge, was eventually persuaded. Hanford's plutonium production was increasing fast enough so that a test would cause little delay in time. They feared that if they dropped the untested plutonium bomb and it failed to work, "the enemy would find themselves ... the tank. After further development of the implosion design and fears that "Jumbo" would dramatically distort all "their complicated instrumentation-the raison d' tre for the test,"(Szasz 36) the world's largest pressure tank was not used. On Monday, July 16, 1945, at...

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... Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves, the man the army placed in charge, was eventually persuaded. Hanford's plutonium production was increasing fast enough so that a test would cause little delay in time. They feared that if they dropped the untested plutonium bomb and it failed to work, "the enemy would find themselves ... the tank. After further development of the implosion design and fears that "Jumbo" would dramatically distort all "their complicated instrumentation-the raison d' tre for the test,"(Szasz 36) the world's largest pressure tank was not used. On Monday, July 16, 1945, at...

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... days in order to finish the project. In 1945, President Truman had received some unsettling news, the bombs had been finished. 3 bombs had been produced, and it was time to test them to see if they had been successful in creating a nuclear weapon. The government had chosen a site in New Mexico called the Trinity Testing Site in Alamogordo. On July 16th ... for severe American casualties. Truman had weighed the issues and decided to drop the 1st bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. On August 6th 1945, a plane named the Enola Gay, flew over Hiroshima and at 8:15 am one minute after the Little Man wa...

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... in a nuclear research center there. Whether or not to drop the bomb, President Truman was faced with a decision that would affect the United States as well as the entire world: "I am going to have to make a decision which no man in history has ever had to make." -President Truman. Their was just one goal that the President was eager to fulfill ... , to end this war as quickly as possible. Some recommended that a test bomb be dropped on a barren space, but Truman decided that it was unnecessary. The Scientists of this Manhattan project were certain that it would work, and didn't want to r...

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