Dec 28, 2009

Salem on History | The First Atomic Bomb Is Successfully Detonated

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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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Salem on History | The First Atomic Bomb Is Successfully Detonated

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