The First Atomic Bomb Is Successfully Detonated
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science, Military History
- Subcategories: Scientists, Physics, Physicists, Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation, Bombs, Bombings, Explosions
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: New Mexico
- Date: July 16, 1945
Article abstract: Oppenheimer directed the development and design of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project of World War II, culminating in the first successful nuclear explosion at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Summary of Event
The successful detonation of the first atomic bomb was the dramatic conclusion of nearly fifty years of scientific research and a four-year crash program of wartime development. The discovery of radioactivity by Antoine-Henri Becquerel in 1896 revealed the enormous energy locked inside the atom. Albert Einstein’s 1905 theory of...
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