{"id":869,"date":"2015-07-16T20:55:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T03:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2015-07-16T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T04:00:40","slug":"70-years-ago-today-first-atomic-bomb-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"70 Years Ago Today &#8211; First Atomic Bomb Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 16, 1946, seventy years ago today, the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/atom-bomb-successfully-tested\" target=\"blank\">first Atomic Bomb<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0was detonated in the desert near\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trinity_(nuclear_test)\" target=\"blank\">Alamogordo, New Mexico<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 This marked a successful step forward in the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manhattan_Project\" target=\"blank\">Manhattan Project<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and a pivotal point in the terror and triumph of nuclear energy. \u00c2\u00a0A couple of years ago, I read a very interesting and sobering book on the topic, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Making-Atomic-Bomb-Anniversary\/dp\/1451677618\" target=\"blank\">The Making of the Atomic Bomb<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"atombomb.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/atombomb.jpg\" alt=\"Atombomb\" width=\"590\" height=\"715\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 16, 1946, seventy years ago today, the\u00c2\u00a0first Atomic Bomb\u00c2\u00a0was detonated in the desert near\u00c2\u00a0Alamogordo, New Mexico\u00c2\u00a0 This marked a successful step forward in the\u00c2\u00a0Manhattan Project\u00c2\u00a0and a pivotal point in the terror and triumph of nuclear energy. \u00c2\u00a0A couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=869\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[209,210,211],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-history","tag-atomic-bomb","tag-manhatten-project","tag-new-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}