Department of Energy National Atomic Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico Contents: The First Atomic Test. Jumbo. Schmidt-McDonald Ranch House. Notes. Bibliography. The National Atomic Museum. The First Atomic Test On Monday morning July 16, 1945, the world was changed forever when the first atomic ...
The Nuclear Science & History Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has completed restoration of Boeing B-52B Stratofortress 52-0013. The aircraft is one of only four B-models on public display. It was used for the 1956 atomic trials in the Pacific during Operation Redwing, and Operation Dominic...
Retired physicist Duane Hughes, who gives tours at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, said the history of the Trinity Test is important because it helped end the war and set the stage for a Cold War arms race. "I don't know if anyone thought it was a fail...
At the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, visitors can view models of nuclear submarines, examine missile parachutes, look at casings of the atomic bombs used during World War II, and see photos of the scientists who worked together on the Manhattan Project, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, ...
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The museum received its "Little Boy" atomic bomb following restoration at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its the same type as the one dropped on August 6, 1945, over Hiroshima, Japan. Detonation...
Warm Sands: Uranium Mill Tailings Policy in the Atomic West. By Eric W. Mogren. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. x + 241 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $34.95doi:10.2307/3985989Gorman Hugh S...
Discover more about the first atomic bombsThe first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico as part of the U.S. government program called the Manhattan Project. The United States then used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 6 and 9, respectively, ...
Atomic bomb: first testFirst atomic bomb test, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. The first atomic bomb was exploded at 5:30amon July 16, 1945, at theAlamogordoair base 120 miles (193 km) south ofAlbuquerque, New Mexico. Oppenheimer had called the site “Trinity” in reference...