On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age, with the successful testing of the most powerful weapon known to man. "Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot ...
After the war, she worked with Edward Teller on the development of the hydrogen bomb. Her work in nuclear physics would eventually win her the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1963, making her only the ...