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Saturday, July 16, 2016

July 16th

On this day - July 16th 1945 - The detonation of the first atomic bomb 

During the second world war initiated the US a program called "The Manhattan project". The aim of this project was to develop an nuclear bomb. Kenneth Bainbridge was assigned the task of planning the test already in March 1944.  The first bomb to be detonated had the code name Trinity and was detonated on this day in 1945. The nuclear test was conducted in the Jornada del Muerto dessert in New Mexico.


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