First Atomic bomb detonated in Los Alamos (Bom Atom Pertama Diledakkan di Los Alamos)

Tanggal 16 Juli 1945, bom atom pertama diledakkan di Los Alamos, New Mexico, Amerika Serikat. Dilaporkan bahwa bahkan pada jarak 32 km dari ledakan, pengamat dapat merasakan panasnya ledakan pada kulit.

July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States. Reported that even at a distance of 32 km from the explosion, the observer can feel the heat of the explosion on the skin.

Forerunner of the atomic bomb was found by two German scientists who fled to England, namely, Professor Rudolph Peierls and Otto Frisch, a professor of the University of Birmingham Second is to design a blueprint of making an atomic bomb in 1940. However, the atomic bomb that actually begins when the Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist who worked in the United States, found that for the first time a tool capable of producing an atomic chain reaction.

In 1940, the United States and Britain are both researching about the atomic bomb, and when the United States involved in World War II, Britain joined the Manhattan Project. The production of atomic bombs in the United States.