60th Anniversary of World's First Atomic Test Blast Marked
D.C. Moons from Detroit, wearing a hat shaped like a mushroom cloud he made out of foam, poses for a friend beside the Trinity Site monument at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., July 16, 2005. Thousands of people gathered Saturday at Trinity Site to mark the 60th anniversary of the world's first test of an atomic weapon. Scientists working at Trinity Site as part of the Manhattan Project created the nuclear device used in the test on July 16, 1945. That successful detonation led to the construction of the two atomic bombs that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Japan in August 1945, essentially stunning Japan into surrender and ending World War II. (China Daily/AP Photo)
