Sentence examples for bombs were tested from inspiring English sources
One or two 233U bombs were tested in the Nevada desert during the 1950s and, perhaps ominously, another was detonated by India in the late 1990s.
No bombs were tested during the filming, but the article quoted Robert Pendleton, director of radiological health at the University of Utah, saying radioactivity from previous blasts probably lodged in Snow Canyon.
He notes the "annihilatory daylight" in Nevada and thinks that it makes sense that atomic bombs were tested there, "because the nuclear explosions blend in with a typical morning".
In the mid-1950s, seven bombs were tested at Maralinga in the south-west Australian outback.
A visit to the seafront was sometimes soundtracked by the sound of bombs being tested at the MOD-owned Foulness Island on the edge of the estuary.
Different, inert versions of the bomb were tested at Reculver, leading to the development of the operational version known as "Upkeep".
The bomb was tested at approximately half yield (58 megatons) on Oct. 30, 1961.
In January 1950, Truman gave his approval to the H-bomb project, and the first fusion bomb was tested successfully at Enewetak atoll in November 1952.
At Los Alamos before the first nuclear bomb was tested, Emil Konopinski was given the job of calculating whether or not the explosion would set the atmosphere on fire.
Nearing Albuquerque, there's Alamogordo, where the first nuclear bomb was tested in 1945, or Roswell, where in 1947 extraterrestrial visitors famously scuppered a flying saucer in the desert.
On the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack, Mr. Marquardt attended a reunion of the 509th at the New Mexico site where the atomic bomb was tested in July 1945, and he recalled the moment of the Hiroshima blast.
