TUCKED away deep in the New Mexico desert, a team of scientists developed the world’s most devastating weapon away from prying eyes.
Led by the notorious J Robert Oppenheimer, the first-ever nuclear bomb was created at Los Alamos – able to wipe out the entire globe.
Los Alamos – a self-contained town, with wives, children and a church – was the home of the top-secret Project Y, part of the wider hush-hush Manhattan Project.
There, fearing Germany was two years ahead in the nuclear arms race, experts worked relentlessly to build a plutonium-based atomic bomb.
And in just 27 months, the US accomplished the unthinkable and detonated the first-ever nuke weapons in a test code-named Trinity.