Roosevelt's Decision To Fund The Bomb

“No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. The lighting effects beggared description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times greater than that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, gray, and blue...”( Groueff 355). The words of Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell describe the onset of the atomic age, which began on July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. This was the site of the …

…ethical text of ancient India, “I am become Death,” he said, “the destroyer of worlds.” Ken Bainbridge, the test director, told Oppenheimer, “Now we’re all sons of bitches.” Several participants, shortly after viewing the explosion signed petitions against ever utilizing the bomb, but their protests were in vain. As history unfolded, the Trinity site of New Mexico was not the last site to experience an atomic explosion (http://terabyte.virtual-pc.com/vik/vik/nuke/).