Show LiK 2000 BlOCKBUSTERS BLOCKBUSTERS' 1 Bomb Test Men Almost Six Miles Away V WASHINGTON S Aug 6 UP The The first test firing o of ar atomic bomb Immediately vaporized a 01 steel tower from which the weapon on was wa suspended and sent a massive mas mar siv sive clo cloud d billowing into tb the stratosphere stratosphere stratosphere strat strat- with wI tremendous ous' ous power pow pow- er er erthe the war var department said Mon Mon- day At the appointed time an of official ot- ot description of t the test said there was a a. blinding flash light light- lug Ing ng up the whole area brighter than the brightest daylight A mountain range three miles from the hc observation point stood out in bold relict relief There came a n. tremendous sustained sus gus sus roar and A A. heavy pressure wave which knocked down two men outside the control tower yards from the explosion Immediately thereafter a huge multicolored surging cloud boiled boned to an altitude of over o feet teet Clouds in Its Us' Us path disappeared Soon the shifting sphere winds dispersed the narrow gray ray mass The steel tower from tram which th the bomb had been suspended had been entirely vaporized the description continued Where the tower had stood there was a 4 huge sl sloping crater Dazed but relieved at the success sue suc suc- I ce cess of oC their tests the scientists promptly marshaled their forces or es esto to estimate the strength of Americas America's Amer Amer- leas ica's n new w weapon Answer r to tJ their findings rests In the destruction effected on oh Japan today in the first military use of ot the tho atomic bomb The bomb was war tested for the first time at a. a m. m July 16 1945 in a remote section of the Alamogordo air base miles southeast of Albuquerque N. N M. M The test was wa carried out in pouring pouring pour pour- ing rain |