The atomic age began at 5:30 a.m.
If Nazi Germany could engineer the bomb first, an Allied victory against Hitl.
Prelude to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which forced the capitulation of Japan and ended World War II, the Trinity test was the culmination of herculean efforts by scientists, civilians, and the military of the United States to tap the potential of the atom for a wartime emergency. on July 16, 1945, with the explosion of "the Gadget" at Trinity near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The atomic age began at 5:30 a.m