The first detonation of a nuclear device was the Trinity Detonation on July 16, 1945 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico
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The Manhattan project scientists headed by Robert Oppenheimer.
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1949 thru 1950 prompted by USSR atomic bomb test.
It was not tested in a city at all. It was tested in the dessert, and at sea.
Because they needed a weapon to defeat the Japanese, and many prestigious scientists, including Einstein himself, mailed the president to tell him of the potential power of an atomic bomb.
On July 16th 1945, the US tested their atomic bomb called Trinity in the Jornada Del Muerto desert in New Mexico. This test often marks the beginning of the Atomic Age, as the Trinity tests were followed by the atomic bomb in Nagaski, Japan in August 1945.
They did test the bomb first, in 1945 at the White Sands Proving Grounds near Socorro, New Mexico.
the us created the atomic bomb
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The US needed a place to test the bomb, and the desert in New Mexico was the best place.
1. Japan didn't give up easy. 2. US were eger to test their newly developed A-Bomb and to be a world leader.