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This historic photo has appeared in the Journal with stories about the testing of the atomic bomb near Alamogordo. The photo was taken by the head photographer for the Trinity test, Berlyn Brixners, who was positioned 10,000 yards away and set up 50 cameras to capture the blast on July 16, 1945.
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The front page of the Aug. 7, 1945, sa国际传媒官网网页入口 announced the U.S. dropped the world鈥檚 first 鈥渘ew and fearful鈥� atomic bomb on Hiroshima. That same front page revealed for the first time details of the test of the bomb in Alamogordo and how the 鈥渕ost terrible destructive force ever harnessed by man鈥� was created as a result of the multi-year Manhattan Project in secret plants built north of Santa Fe at Los Alamos.

By the end of August, the war officially ended. 

A month later, a team of journalists was taken on a tour of the site. 

The start of the resulting Page 1 story in the Sept. 12, 1945, Journal read: 鈥淭he fantastic facts about the atomic bomb crater, a saucer-shaped depression 15 feet deep and a half-mile across, where the top quarter-inch of New Mexico鈥檚 red-gray soil boiled and bubbled and then cooled into a carpet of jade and turquoise-colored glass, was revealed Wednesday.鈥�

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