USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Where was the first atomic bomb built
A
Oak Ridge Tennessee
B
Los alamos New Mexico
C
Chicago
D
Handford Washington
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto. The code name for the test was “Trinity ."

Detailed explanation-2: -The first atomic bomb was built in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during World War II under a program called the Manhattan Project.

Detailed explanation-3: -Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), also called (1943–47) Los Alamos Laboratory and (1947–81) Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the laboratory that produced the first atomic bombs used during World War II and home of the primary nuclear weapons research facility in the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the second world war, Los Alamos was the site of a classified research laboratory, built as part of the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb. Along with Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington, it was also home to a “secret city” built to house thousands of scientists, engineers and their families.

Detailed explanation-5: -Los Alamos (Spanish: Los Álamos) is a census-designated place in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States, that is recognized as the development and creation place of the atomic bomb-the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II.

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