In 1952, Winston Churchill announced that Britain had produced its own atomic bomb and would test it in Australia.

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Other instruments will test for atomic elements, organic materials, radiation and water.

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Indeed, less than a month after the Trinity test, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 100, 000 people and forcing Japan to surrender.

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One example of which the White House is fond is the atomic clock the Pentagon helped Harvard to develop so that scientists could test Einstein's theory of relativity.

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The first two, KOERI in Turkey and the Atomic Energy Centre in France, should be operational some time in 2012 when a more exhaustive test will be conducted.

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