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70 Years ago today - the first atomic bomb was tested near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Here's part of a 1965 U.S. Army film describing our nuclear capability...and here's a recent American History TV program about the Manhattan Project: http://www.c-span.org/video/?326373-3/remembering-leslie-groves-robert-oppenheimer | American History TV

Trinity Test at Alamogordo, New Mexico 💥 At precisely 5:30 a.m. on Monday, July 16, 1945, the nuclear age began. ⚛️ While Manhattan Project staff members watched anxiously, the device exploded over the New Mexico desert, vaporizing the tower and turning the asphalt around the base of the tower to green sand. Seconds after the explosion came a huge blast wave and heat searing out across the desert. No one could see the radiation generated by the explosion, but they all knew it was there. ☢️ The