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The Trinity nuclear test

1945 CE · United States, North America · Science

The Trinity nuclear test
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Trinity was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a. m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, or "gadget" – the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945.

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