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  2. Trinity (nuclear test) - Wikipedia

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    At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion.

  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. 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 ...

  6. 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.

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

  8. List of United States nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    Test with "energy budget". Competition between UCRL and LASL over budget allocation was high. Project 57: 1957 1: 1: 1: 0 0: The first safety test, asking whether an improperly ignited bomb (as in a plane crash) would cause a nuclear blast. Plumbbob: 1957 29: 29: 25: 0 to 74 345: Included the largest atmospheric test in CONUS. Project 58+58A ...

  9. 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.