Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for July 16, 2025
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July 16, 2025: Eighty years ago, on July 16, 1945, the first ever atomic bomb was detonated at the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico. The detonation of this bomb was to test whether a bomb using plutonium would be effective. Famously, the testing of the bomb was led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, and would lead to the United States dropping two atomic bombs on Japan, one on August 6, 1945, on Hiroshima, and the second on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. This would ultimately lead to the end of the war with Japan in World War II.[1][2]
Scott Rasmussen is the president of RMG Research, Inc. and founder of the Napolitan Institute.
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
- July 15, 2025-28% of voters say cutting government spending is more important than economic growth
- July 14, 2025-Five states do not permit election officials to begin processing any aspect of absentee/mail-in ballots until Election Day
- July 11, 2025-31% of voters say businesses in their area are more likely to be hiring people than laying them off
- July 10, 2025-193 years ago, President Andrew Jackson vetoed an effort by the government to recharter the Second Bank of the United States
- July 9, 2025-9% of voters rate their personal finances as excellent
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