WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After World War II, the federal government took control of millions of acres of New Mexico land, which it used to build military bases, missile ranges, and R&D facilities. The laboratory at Los Alamos became part of a new network of National Laboratories around the country.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the meantime, at Los Alamos, New Mexico, scientists found a way to bring the fissionable material to supercritical mass (and thus explosion) and to control the timing and devised a weapon to house it. The first test, on July 16, 1945, at Alamogordo air force base in New Mexico, produced a massive nuclear explosion.

Detailed explanation-3: -Radar technology played a significant part in World War II and was of such importance that some historians have claimed that radar helped the Allies win the war more than any other piece of technology, including the atomic bomb.

Detailed explanation-4: -On July 16, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site. This test proved that scientists at LANL had successfully weaponized the atom.