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1 day ago · Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect ...
20 hours ago · In the early morning hours of July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the work at Los Alamos culminated in the test of the world's first nuclear weapon. Oppenheimer had code-named the site " Trinity " in mid-1944, saying later that the name came from John Donne 's Holy Sonnets ; he had been introduced to Donne's work in the 1930s by Jean ...
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20 hours ago · Manhattan District The Trinity test of the Manhattan Project on 16 July 1945 was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Active 1942–1946 Disbanded 15 August 1947 Country United States United Kingdom Canada Branch U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Garrison/HQ Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S. Anniversaries 13 August 1942 Engagements Allied invasion of Italy Allied invasion of France Allied invasion of ...
5 days ago · Commissioned at Newport News, Virginia, on Nov. 25, 1961, USS Enterprise was the world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier. Ordered to assist the Project Mercury Program in February 1962, she tracked and measured the flight of the first American orbital spaceflight, Friendship 7.
5 days ago · In March 1985, the construction work of the first Chinese nuclear power plant – the so-called Phase I of the Qinshan nuclear power project, began in Qinshan of Zhejiang province. Phase II of the Qinshan nuclear power project was commissioned in 1987. In December 1991, the power plant operation was officially handed over and merged into the ...
2 days ago · Between 1945 and 1962, the U.S. conducted 200 above-ground tests in the southwest and Pacific. These tests required the labor of thousands of uranium miners – mostly from the Navajo Nation ...
4 days ago · Uranium is found in nature with 2 isotopes. 99.3% of it is Uranium-238. The rest is Uranium-235 with fewer neutrons. They are chemically identical, but only U-235 readily splits and releases energy in a power plant.
