“.. In the two and a half years [that scientists had been working on the bomb] all the bugs were ironed out. Components were put together at an isolated spot near Santa Fe, N.M. Tested on the desert on July 16, 1945, the bomb disintegrated a steel tower, sent a great cloud of smoke boiling up some 40,000 feet and knocked down two men more than five-and-a-half miles away. Then the bombs went to the Far East.”
Newsweek magazine first report on the Atomic Bomb 1945atomic bomb dropped on New Mexico desert reported in Newsweek magazine 1945New Mexico State hosts the first Atomic Bomb explosion 1945
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Newsweek magazine first report on the Atomic Bomb 1945atomic bomb dropped on New Mexico desert reported in Newsweek magazine 1945New Mexico State hosts the first Atomic Bomb explosion 1945