In the book " The Bomb A Life" De Groot , in three chapters, pictures in great detail the three steps that started the atomic age: the decisions, the test in New Mexico and the final "test" in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The NAME objectively untwists the scheme behind one of the most significant event of the modern world.
The forth chapter describes the beginning of the atomic age, the testing of the bomb in the desert of New Mexico. The importance of this event becomes clear already in the first paragraph that describes that the scientists metaphorically compared the test to giving a birth.…
