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  2. Trinity (nuclear test) - Wikipedia

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    "War Department release on New Mexico test, July 16, 1945", from the Smyth Report, with eyewitness reports from Groves and Farrell (1945) The short film Nuclear Test Film – Trinity Shot (1945) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. The short film Nuclear Test Film – Nuclear Testing Review (1945) is available for ...

  3. Trinity UFO Case - Wikipedia

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    The Trinity UFO case is a crashed spaceship story-conspiracy theory set in August 1945 near the Trinity test, where the first atomic bomb had been detonated five weeks prior. The legend was first published in 2003 and was widely publicized in a 2021 book by longtime ufologist Jacques Vallée and Paola Leopizzi Harris.

  4. Los Alamos National Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    The first stages of the explosion of the Trinity nuclear test. The work of the laboratory culminated in several atomic devices, one of which was used in the first nuclear test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, codenamed "Trinity", on July 16, 1945.

  5. McDonald Ranch House - Wikipedia

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    The McDonald Ranch House in the Oscura Mountains of Socorro County, New Mexico, was the location of assembly of the world's first nuclear weapon.The active components of the Trinity test "gadget", a plutonium Fat Man-type bomb similar to that later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, were assembled there on July 13, 1945.

  6. Factbox-Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, and when? - AOL

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    The United States opened the nuclear era in July 1945 with the test of a 20-kiloton atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in July 1945, and then dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of ...

  7. Oppenheimer's test site wasn't remote. It was populated by ...

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    The people of New Mexico were the first victims of the atomic bomb, the result of the Manhattan Project's Trinity Test on July 16, 1945.

  8. Chemist digs for clues related to New Mexico atomic bomb - AOL

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    The first atomic bomb test Scientists detonated the first atomic bomb in July 1945 in a remote desert area in south central New Mexico , a location later nicknamed the Trinity Site.

  9. List of nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    The Trinity test on 16 July 1945, near Socorro, New Mexico, was the first-ever test of a nuclear weapon (yield of around 20 kilotons). The Operation Crossroads series in July 1946, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, was the first postwar test series and one of the largest military operations in U.S. history.