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The Trinity bomb released the explosive energy of 25 kilotons of TNT (100 TJ) ± 2 kilotons of TNT (8.4 TJ), and a large cloud of fallout. Thousands of people lived closer to the test than would have been allowed under guidelines adopted for subsequent tests, but no one living near the test was evacuated before or afterward.
Apr 23, 2010 · Learn about the top-secret Manhattan Project that developed the world's first atomic bomb and its detonation at the Trinity test site in 1945. Find out how the bomb was named, what it looked like and how it changed history.
Jun 18, 2014 · Learn about the history, location, and preparation of the Trinity test, the world's first nuclear device detonated in New Mexico in 1945. Find out how the Gadget, a plutonium implosion bomb, was built, tested, and successfully exploded at the Trinity site.
Learn how the Trinity test in New Mexico in 1945 demonstrated the implosion method of atomic bombing, which was more efficient and powerful than the gun method used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Discover how this difference influenced the Pacific war planning and the US strategic bombing campaign.
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.
Jul 16, 2015 · Alex Wellerstein recounts the successful testing of the world’s first nuclear bomb, built by J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, and evocatively named Trinity, in Alamogordo, New ...
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Jul 15, 2020 · The 75th anniversary of what’s known as the Trinity explosion, the world’s first nuclear weapon test, comes as tensions over nuclear devices intensify.
