Mister Fermi helped Mister Oppenheimer prepare the Alamogordo bomb test.
VOA: special.2009.06.14
He was asked to help Robert Oppenheimer with the atomic bomb test at Alamogordo.
VOA: special.2009.06.14
When General Leslie Groves, manager of the Manhattan Project, witnessed the explosion of the world's first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, he thought of Blondin crossing the Falls on a tightrope.
They were not so sure about the more complex "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, so they tested it in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico, before dropping one on Nagasaki on Aug. 9.