Everything was perfect but the aim
Richard Feynman witnesses the first detonation of a nuclear weapon
On this day in 1945, the desolate expanse of New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert became the stage for a pivotal event in human history. The world’s first atomic bomb, codenamed “Trinity,” was set to detonate. Known among the scientists of the Manhattan Project as “Gadget,” this device marked the culmination …
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