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  • Thousands mark world's first atomic blast

    07/16/2005 6:35:13 PM PDT · by SmithL · 58 replies · 1,490+ views
    AP ^ | 7/16/5 | FELICIA FONSECA
    WHITE SANDS MISSLE RANGE, N.M. - Thousands of people gathered Saturday at Trinity Site, a restricted area of the White Sands Missile Range, to mark the 60th anniversary of the world's first test of an atomic weapon. Scientists working at Trinity site as part of The Manhattan Project created the nuclear device used in the test on July 16, 1945. That successful detonation led to the construction of the two atomic bombs that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Japan in August 1945, essentially stunning Japan into surrender and ending World War II. The depression created by the blast...