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Every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter cspanhistory for the latest news. 70 years ago on july 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was tested near los alamos, new mexico. A few weeks later Nuclear Bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki, japan. Here is part of a 1965 u. S. Army film describing our Nuclear Capability in the 1960s. An american desert. This was an early test before our country along with other over 100 other nations agreed to cease atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. For today or Nuclear Power is such that in the words of our president , the combined destructive power of every battle ever fought by man is like a firecracker against the sun. [explosion]