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...China can probably deliver a bomb a lot sooner than the five to ten years that U.S. officials first believed it would take. The U.S. moved from "explosion" at Alamogordo to bomb over Hiroshima in less than three weeks. If the Chinese are thinking in terms of a clumsy, 20-kiloton blockbuster like Hiroshima's (10 ft. long, 28 in. wide, and weighing 9,000 Ibs.), they could probably deliver it along their periphery within six months. Peking's 275 Russian-built IL-28 bombers are capacious enough to carry such bombs to targets up to 600 miles...
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...publicly attacked a 1956 Pentagon decision to limit the Army to short-range missiles, for which he earned a court-martial and a tour of duty in the Canal Zone, but vindication when an Army Jupiter put the first U.S. satellite into orbit; in an auto accident; near Alamogordo...
Though he probably did as much as any other man to ensure the success of the Manhattan Project, once the first bomb was built, he would not wait to see the first test explosion at Alamogordo. For the rest of his life, all nuclear weapons were objects of horror to him. His fondest hope was to find a way to abolish them...
JULY 16, 1945-World's first atomic explosion, by U.S., at Alamogordo...