| The Manhattan Project, a joint effort by scientists at Los Alamos, New Mexico, culminated in the explosion of the first atomic bomb at 5:30 AM on this day at a site on the Alamogordo air base, 193 km (120 miles) south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The bomb generated an explosive power equivalent to 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT, and the surrounding desert surface fused to glass for a radius of 730 metres (800 yards). The following month, two other atomic bombs produced by the project, the first ... |