1. Atomic Bomb and the Manhattan Project
... workers at these facilities were never told what they were working on, just that they were helping with the war effort. The efforts of all the facilities eventually culminated in a test of the first atomic bomb, which took place in Los Alamos, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The ... test of the atomic bomb was named "Trinity," and it was a major success. The test bomb was detonated resulting in a shockwave that could be felt over 100 miles away and heard as far as El Paso, Texas. The bomb created a crater at the ... test site spanning 250 feet and a mushroom cloud reaching 7.5 miles into ...
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