Atomic Bomb Test, Aerial View

Aerial view of atomic bomb testing site near Alamogordo, N.M., shows the shallow crater dug by the blast 300 feet around the tower from which the bomb hung, in this 1945 file photo. It was the first violent release by man of vast energies which until then had been locked in the heart of atoms since the world began.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/upi_misc/1004/thumbnail.jp