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
Atomic Junction Gas Explosion students Residents around Madina and Haatso in Accra who were also close to the explosion zone were also being evacuated. , personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service, Ghana Police Service and National Disaster Management Organisation were onsite trying to put the fire under control. , the source of the explosion was not known. The total cost of property destroyed is estimated to be GHS 1,503,010. The following day Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice President of Ghana, stated that new policies would quickly be put in place to reduce the risk of similar incidents occurring in the future. Atomic Junction Gas