My Father was at a Bomb test that was twice the size of Hiroshima

His eyewitness account shows that the movie got it right.

After seeing the Oppenheimer movie, I started rereading my father’s memoir of his time working on the Manhattan Project. It begins with his description of an atomic test that he saw in the early fifties that was twice the size of the Alamogordo test depicted in the movie. Here’s first hand evidence that the movie got it right: First a blinding silent flash, then a rumble in the earth and finally the sound of the explosion…