first atomic bomb explosion

This is the only surviving coloured picture (not yet) of the first atomic bomb explosion taken by Aeby Jack, one of the creators, at 5:29:45 on 16 July 1945 at the Trinity site, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was the beginning of the Atomic age. Almost 100,000 picture was taken of the event, but near all of them was black and white since the intensity of the light tended blister and solarize the film. Some observers said that the sky was “aglow with an orange hue”, others that there was a deep violet colour that was the result of radioactivity. The characteristic mushroom cloud of radioactive vapour materialised at 30.000 feet. Beneath the cloud the soil became green radioactive glass created by the radioactive heat. The brilliant light of the bomb waso big that the residents of the neighbouring towns were swearing that the sun came up twice that day. An other amusing thing was that a blind girl saw the flash 120 miles away.The first atomic bomb was produced by the scientists of the Manhattan Project, which was financed by the US government. It was set up after Albert Einstein warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt about the Nazis plan to purify Uranium so as to produce the most destructive bomb of that age. They knew that whoever gets the bomb first will win the Second World War. The creators, who very much aware of the power of the explosive, were against using it, however the United States dropped an uranium bombs nicknamed “Little Boy” on Hiroshima August 6, 1945, and “Fat Man” on Nagasaki August 9. The next day Japan offered to surrender. 101,000 people were killed and 84,000 were injured by the two bombs.