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6 views of the very first atomic bomb detonation

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As World War II broke out around the globe in the early 1940s, the US government created the Manhattan Project, a team of mathematicians, scientists, and engineers to create the world’s first atomic weapon.

75 years ago, on July 16, 1945, the group tested its first nuclear bomb at a U.S. Air Force base in New Mexico.

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