Word: alamogordo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atomic Age scientists knew about this "thermonuclear reaction," but could not copy it because they had no way of approaching the temperature of the sun's interior. They found the way on July 16, 1945, when the first uranium bomb exploded at Alamogordo, N. Mex. For an instant the heart of the bomb was hot enough to make hydrogen fuse into helium. Ever since, a hydrogen bomb has been possible...
...cycle that soon shot far above the peaks of level two. Many fossil fuel cultures might have risen and fallen, but they never got a chance. Before the first of them, our own, had reached its peak, level four began when the first atomic bomb was set off at Alamogordo, N. Mex., July...