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Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. MWT (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, nicknamed the "gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki , Japan ...
Jul 16, 2015 · Trinity was only the first nuclear detonation of the summer of 1945. Two more followed, in early August, over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing as many as a quarter of a million people. By...
Sep 6, 2017 · The bomb, which detonated with an energy of around 15 kilotons of TNT, was the first nuclear weapon deployed in wartime. The crew of the Boeing B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, which made the flight...
Jun 18, 2014 · After three years of research and experimentation, the world’s first nuclear device, the “Gadget,” was successfully detonated in the New Mexico desert. This inaugural test ushered in the nuclear era. Read below for more information about the test, its aftermath, and impacts.
Jul 16, 2015 · At precisely 5:30 a.m. on Monday, July 16, 1945, the nuclear age began. While Manhattan Project staff members watched anxiously, the device exploded over the New Mexico desert, vaporizing the tower and turning the asphalt around the base of the tower to green sand.
Apr 23, 2010 · At 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, Los Alamos scientists detonated a plutonium bomb at a test site located on the U.S. Air Force base at Alamogordo, New Mexico, some 120 miles south of Albuquerque....
The first thermonuclear weapons. Deterrence and brinkmanship. Weapons improvement. Emergence of the anti-nuclear movement. Cuban Missile Crisis. Initial proliferation. Cold War. Cost. Second nuclear age. See also. References. Bibliography. Further reading. External links. History of nuclear weapons.
