CSPAN3 The Atom Strikes June 22, 2024
1945. Y 16, this is the darkness of a desert morning and here in new mexico, a group of men wait expectant. Behind them is three years done in unprecedented secrecy. [roar of the explosion] three different cameras recorded from six miles away these views of the most concentrated release of explosive energy in the history of mankind. From the time of that first explosion until hiroshima shattered beneath the atomic work for the bomb pushed forward and closely guarded plants. Years,r 100 the city had never been subjected to actual bombing. Now its army headquarters, barracks and depots, shipyard...