... area code-named Trinity also known as Alamogordo, New Mexico. This first nuclear device used plutonium produced from a uranium and graphite-pile reactor in Richland, Washington. The results of this test far exceeded the scientists" expectations. A month later, a highly enriched uranium nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was dropped on August 6, 1945 ... citizens on the first day and an additional nineteen thousand during the subsequent four months. "A bright light filled the plane," wrote Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the En...

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