American Defenders of Land, Sea & Sky
The Continuing Global Struggle America and World War II (1941-1945)
We exploded a powerful new bomb.
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American Defenders of Land, Sea & Sky The Continuing Global Struggle America and World War II (1941-1945) |
We exploded a powerful new bomb. |
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Trinity Site American, British, and Canadian scientists were here for the test, as well as an enormous staff of soldiers and technicians. At 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945, they witnessed the explosion of the first atomic bomb. The bomb, called the "Fat Man," was about 5-feet tall with a core of plutonium metal and electrical detonators that looked like spark plugs.
The blast was so powerful that sand at ground zero was fused into a green glassy substance called "trinitite." On August 6, 1945, President Harry S. Truman ordered an atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. A second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th. When Japan surrendered five days later, World War II had finally come to a close. This modest lava stone monument marks a turning point in world history. | |||
 Why we fought again A New Era at Home and Abroad America After World War II (1945-1958) |
