Baltic island of Ruegen, alleged first atomic bomb test. On 12 October 1944

Baltic island of Ruegen, alleged first atomic bomb test. On 12 October 1944

Baltic island of Ruegen, alleged first atomic bomb test. On 12 October 1944 the german army carried out what they called "a test of the disintegration bomb''. nine months before the New Mexico U.S. nuclear device was set off, Nazi Germany detonated a nuclear bomb on the island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea, the first in a series of three tests. It has been reported that Luigi Romersa, an Italian correspondent during World War II, was personally dispatched by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) to the island of Rugen to witness the weapons test. Romersa (1917-2007) was the last known witness, at least to have come forward, to what he and some historians have said was the detonation of a Nazi nuclear device.

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