First Atomic Bomb Test

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception 

Today in 1945 the first atomic bomb was successfully tested in New Mexico. LIFE.com offers a series of Fritz Goro photographs made before, during and, especially, after two July 1946 nuclear blasts at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific: http://ti.me/TckLU1

(Photo: Fritz Goro—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)