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16 Ιουλ 2024 · To take note of this world historical event, the National Security Archive today publishes declassified documents about the first atomic bomb test and the radioactive contamination that preoccupied government officials and medical experts during the years that followed.
16 Νοε 2021 · This paper is set during the 1944 and 1945 final push to complete Project Y—the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos—and focuses primarily on overcoming the challenge of creating and demonstrating a successful convergent explosive implosion to turn a subcritical quantity of plutonium into a critical mass.
16 Ιουλ 2015 · At precisely 5:30 a.m. on Monday, July 16, 1945, the nuclear age began. While Manhattan Project staff members watched anxiously, the device exploded over the New Mexico desert, vaporizing the tower and turning the asphalt around the base of the tower to green sand.
7 Μαρ 2016 · This successful, experimental trial – resulting in the detonation of a spherical bomb nicknamed 'The Gadget' – ushered in a new nuclear age and arms race, with several nations subsequently developing and detonating their own nuclear weaponry in the decades since.
19 Ιαν 1998 · Kaczynski allegedly transports a bomb from Montana to Oakland, California. April 20, 1995: Kaczynski allegedly mails the bomb to William Dennison, the former president of the California Forestry Association. April 24, 1995: Gilbert Murray, Dennison's successor as president, opens the package bomb, which explodes. Murray is killed in the explosion.
Follow a timeline that takes you down the path of our nuclear past to the present. Read biographies of A-bomb father Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi's dispassionate account of the Trinity Test. Examine maps of the damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and summaries of arms-control treaties.
18 Ιουν 2014 · After three years of research and experimentation, the world’s first nuclear device, the “Gadget,” was successfully detonated in the New Mexico desert. This inaugural test ushered in the nuclear era. Read below for more information about the test, its aftermath, and impacts.
