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
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was what a lot of people in bands now are listening to anyway. So in a funny way, it made us completely contemporary." Looking for a harder-hitting rock sound than that of "All That You Can't Leave Behind", U2 began recording "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb", in February 2003 with producer Chris Thomas. After nine months of work, the band had an album's worth of material ready for release, but they were not satisfied with the results; drummer Larry Mullen Jr. said that the songs "had no magic". The group subsequently enlisted Steve Lillywhite to take over as producer