"That, or maybe an outpost to observe the effects of the test detonation."

Before the test detonation, there were already deep misgivings among both the scientific and military community about the morality of the bomb's destructive power.

Jacobson also interviews Richard Mingus who outlines an incident whereby area 6 was attacked at gunpoint during the preparation of a nuclear test detonation.

This was the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.

The bhangmeter was invented, and the first proof-of-concept device was built, in 1948 to measure the nuclear test detonations of Operation Sandstone.

Experts say a costly federal program to assess and maintain their health cannot ultimately confirm their reliability because a global test ban forbids underground test detonations.

Mingus worked on many black projects such as the U2 spy plane and dozens of atomic test detonations that occurred during the cold war.

Following the Soviet Union's first test detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949, President Truman announced a crash development program for a hydrogen bomb.

It was designed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the first underground test detonation took place on December 15th 1984.

In his manifesto Breivik described his first experiments with explosives, and details a successful test detonation at a remote location on 13 June 2011.