On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age ... and was detonated in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Overseeing the project was US Brig.

2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history ...

Howe offered Albertas wide-open spaces as a test site for the new weapon but the Americans preferred the New Mexico desert. The atomic bomb was successfully tested on July 16, 1945 at Alamogordo ...