During the Cold War, in addition to the American and Soviet nuclear stockpiles, other countries also developed nuclear weapons, though none engaged in warhead production on the same size as the two superpowers. The first nuclear test took place in New Mexico on July 16, 1945 under the supervision of Robert J...
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Oppenheimer. This test was intended to prove the actuality of a radical implosion weapon design that had been developed at Los Alamos during the previous year. This design, embodied in the test device called Gadget, involved a new technology that could not be adequately evaluated without a full-scale test...
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