The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

It's as if an atomic bomb was dropped,

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

Trinity’s witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent." Oppenheimer later said the he beheld his radiant blooming cloud and thought of Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Aloud, however, the physicist made the ultimate engineer comment: "It worked.