Hiroshima

tech2 News StaffJul 16, 2019 18:18:42 IST Seventy years ago today, the first atomic bomb  the Trinity test was tested deep in a desert in New Mexico. Twenty-one days after that, the first bomb atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan. Three days after…

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Charles F. Lanzillo had a front-row seat to the Atomic Age. He was a crew chief on a B-29 bomber on Tinian Island, the launching point for the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That tiny outpost in the Pacific Ocean “looked like the Garden of P…