Military Marks Atomic Bomb Test Anniversary
From Times Wire Reports
Hundreds of people gathered in a U.S. Army base in the New Mexico desert to quietly mark the anniversary of the first test of an atomic bomb 60 years ago.
On July 16, 1945, the first nuclear bomb was tested at the Trinity Site in central New Mexico. Less than a month later, World War II ended after the U.S. dropped two such bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 100,000 to 200,000 people.
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