Which 1 of the following five would you consider to be the most significant in US...

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...history and why? 1) US test atom bomb New Mexico 2) Kennedy's Assasination 3) The 1st Moon Landing 4) 911 twin towers attack 5) Barak Obama's elected US President
 
Atom bomb test. You couldn't have had most of the Cold War without MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), and that was due to the atom bomb. Kennedy's assassination was maybe second, because he might have stopped the Vietnam War had he lived.

The moon landing hasn't made much of an impact non-scientifically, and the election and 9/11 are to recent to have one, either.
 
The US has been barking , "all men are created equal" yet many Americans were denied equality, it is because of this that I say the election of Barack Obama as president is the most significant because it takes us closer to our claim of equality and freedom.
 
What I would consider significant is how anyone would think that the most significant things in American history have all happened within the last 50 years.
Do you really think that these have half the significance of say the civil war? Maybe the Revolutionary war? How about WW2. OH, maybe the light bulb? I got a biggie for ya. Figure out how Eli Whitney cause the civil war. Once you get this stuff in order of priority you might have a half a handle on those little issues of the past 50 or so years!
The significance of the twin towers is how it allowed the US government to sidestep the constitution. The moon landing was pretty neat but the real significance of that was the science that allowed it to happen and the developments that followed. Kennedy's assassination is a great lesson on misdirection. And the real lesson of Barak's election is how the people of America can be mislead by the media.
 
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