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Historic Videos. The Trinity Test. After various test sites were considered, a location about 100 miles south of Los Alamos in the aptly-named Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) in the Alamogordo Desert of southern New Mexico, was selected to test the implosion device. Oppenheimer named the site "Trinity" after a poem that he had been reading.
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Mar 12, 2019 · This week, a YouTube channel devoted to sharing video from America’s nuclear age has a newly remastered clip of the world’s first nuclear weapons test, codenamed Trinity.
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Mar 15, 2019 · July 1945's 22 kiloton Trinity test in all its horrifying power. Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m....
Dec 15, 2017 · You Can Now Watch 100+ Declassified US Nuclear Explosion Videos on YouTube. The US has conducted more nuclear weapons tests than any other nation in history. The official count of 1,054 tests includes 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962 - with cameras capturing every one.
This section contains images of the first atomic test and aftermath. On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 AM, a light "brighter than a thousand suns" filled the valley. As the now-familiar mushroom cloud rose into the sky, Oppenheimer quoted from Hindu scripture, the "Bhagavad-gita," "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
