The atomic age has had significant benefits for humanity.
The atomic bomb was, possibly, the worst publicity that has ever been given to science, but not all the practical fruits of the work of the physicists have been used for evil, far from it. Those artifacts of death and destruction were the culmination of the Manhattan Project, the first major plan of applied science in history, designed to convert into pure power the knowledge obtained on the subject during the previous decades. The Trinity test began the era of nuclear weapons that would have its world premiere in Hiroshima, Japan, less than a month later. On July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert in New Mexico, the explosion of the first atomic bomb in history took place.
