On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world's first test of a nuclear weapon. Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the ...
As one official described, "The angle was to get people to think the explosions wouldn't be anything more than a gag." After the April 22, 1952, televised broadcast of the bomb, atomic culture ...