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General Charles Sweeney visiting Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka, Kansas
The Manhattan Project to develop and test the first atomic bomb in New Mexico came to a successful conclusion with the detonation of an atomic bomb at 5:29:45 a.m. on July 16th. Shown in this series of photographs is U. S. Army General Charles Sweeney visiting the Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka, Kansas. General Sweeney piloted Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, less than a month after the first successful test.
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