... onto the earth. Near Alamogordo, New Mexico, "The Gadget," a nuclear weapon with an explosive force equal to that of around twenty kilotons of TNT, was detonated, beginning the "Atomic Age." J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, a joint effort by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada which led the nuclear research project, stated afterward, "Now I am become death, destroyer of ... ...

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