Sentence examples for Test bomb from inspiring English sources

Later, fuel from Hanford was used to produce plutonium for the first test bomb, detonated in New Mexico in July 1945, and for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, a month later.

After the detonation of the first test bomb in 1945, Robert Oppenheimer, the programme's director, later claimed to have recalled a line from Hindu scripture: "I am become death, destroyer of worlds".

His father, who moved to the UK in 1980, said he had "no idea" his son was carrying out test bomb blasts.

In an interview about the bombs in 1965, Oppenheimer said that he quoted from the Bhagavad-Gita while watching the test bomb dropped in 1945: "We knew the world would not be the same...I remember the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita...'.Now I am become Death.

Seventeen production Silverplate aircraft were ordered in August 1944 to allow the 509th Composite Group to train with the type of aircraft they would have to fly in combat, and for the 216th Army Air Forces Base Unit to test bomb configurations.

Our job was to test bomb-detection equipment.

But determining the physical size of China's test bombs was nearly impossible.

It all seemed worth it, Pakistani officials have told me, after India detonated five test bombs and Pakistan came back with six.

The Navy stopped test bombing there in 2003, and it did not take long for tourists or hotel chains to arrive.

There also happens to be a lot of test bombing and flying of unmanned aeroplanes in Nevada because the armed forces uses its vast empty spaces.

In fact, Mitchell sank the warship in a test bombing in 1921, after the war had ended.