Echoes of History Beautiful Sites Where the World Was Forever Changed

39. The Room Where the Deadliest Weapon in History Was Created – Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Tucked away in an unassuming building in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a team of scientists working on The Manhattan Project assembled the world’s first atomic bomb in 1945. It was here that J. Robert Oppenheimer uttered the now-famous words: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Though the original assembly site remains classified, visitors can explore the Los Alamos National Laboratory Museum, where artifacts from the secret project remain—a chilling reminder of the weapon that changed warfare forever.