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".

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.

The war in Algeria brought the end of the French Fourth Republic even as it exploded nuclear test bombs in the Sahara.

The name "pumpkin bomb" was given to the test bombs by Parsons and Dr. Charles C. Lauritsen of the California Institute of Technology, who managed the development team.

Although it was used by the US Navy for test bombing till 2003, Vieques feels pristine, with miles of untamed, deserted beaches, and the world's brightest bioluminescent bay.