Nuclear explosion debris. The first man made nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945 at 5:50 am on the Trinity Test Site near Alamogordo, New Mexico in the United States, an area now known as the White Sands Missile Range. The event involved the full-scale testing of an implosion-type fission atomic bomb. In a memorandum to the U.S. Secretary of War, General Leslie Groves describes the yield as equivalent to 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT. Following this test, a uranium-gun type nuclear bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, with a blast yield
Lewes bomb the SAS the Lewes bomb was an effective weapon against parked aircraft; following an attack in December 1941 an assessment was carried out by a group of Italian engineers on some unexploded bombs found on aircraft at their airfield. After repairing the fuses, they placed the bombs “with school-boy enthusiasm” on some old aircraft, exactly as they had been found. The result, they reported, was that “in every case the firing of the charge, besides causing considerable damage due to the explosion, set the fuel alight.. causing complete destruction of the vehicle”. However they also noted that the fires “do