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    design would work led to a decision to conduct the first nuclear test. The code name "Trinity" was assigned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the...
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    Fallout from the Trinity nuclear test in 1945 impacted a broad swath of eastern New Mexico with hundreds of thousands of people exposed to radioactivity...
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  • persons. Trinity may also refer to Trinity (nuclear test), a nuclear weapon test in New Mexico, United States. Other uses include: Trinity (comics character)...
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    Kenneth Bainbridge (category American nuclear physicists)
    of the Manhattan Project's Trinity nuclear test, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge described the Trinity explosion as a "foul and awesome display"...
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    cores. The first Fat Man to be detonated was "The Gadget" in the Trinity nuclear test less than a month earlier on 16 July at the Alamogordo Bombing and...
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    Jack Aeby (category American nuclear engineers)
    color photograph of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico. Jack W. Aeby was born on...
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    States performed nuclear weapons tests from 1945 to 1992 as part of the nuclear arms race. By official count, there were 1,054 nuclear tests conducted, including...
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    making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, and the second nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity nuclear test. It exploded with an...
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    first nuclear test of Project Plowshare and was the first continental nuclear weapon test since Trinity to be conducted outside of the Nevada Test Site...
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    second half of the 20th century. The first nuclear device was detonated as a test by the United States at the Trinity site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, with...
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  • Operation Trinity may refer to: Trinity (nuclear test) Operation Trinity Clerkenwell crime syndicate, first post-Cold War collaboration of Mi5 to investigate...
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    Trinitite (redirect from Trinity Cube)
    glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The glass is primarily...
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    at the site was used in the first atomic bomb, which was tested in the Trinity nuclear test, and in the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki....
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  • Alfred Coppel. The key change in history in the novel is that the Trinity nuclear test of July 16, 1945, fails. The novel goes on to depict the outcome...
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    Nuclear weapons design are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate. There are...
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    Nagasaki), effectively the same as the "Gadget" device used in the Trinity nuclear test with minor design differences. (21 kilotons, 1945–1950) Mark 4 –...
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    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...
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    Before and during the Cold War, it conducted 1,054 nuclear tests, and tested many long-range nuclear weapons delivery systems. Between 1940 and 1996, the...
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    Storax Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in Area 10 of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site on July 6, 1962, as part of...
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    Muerto at an elevation of 4,700 ft (1,400 m). The Trinity nuclear test site, the location of the first test of an atomic bomb in 1945 is in the northern portion...
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    be a test of the weapon. On July 16, 1945, in the desert north of Alamogordo, New Mexico, the first nuclear test took place, code-named "Trinity", using...
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    S. nuclear policy into the 1950s, was rejected by the Soviet Union as a US ploy to cement its nuclear dominance. Between the Trinity nuclear test of 16...
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    the Trinity test and excluding combat use, countries with nuclear weapons have detonated roughly 1,700 nuclear explosions, all but six as tests. Of these...
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    dignitaries present at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range for the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb, and was part of the Interim...
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  • underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965. Chagan was the first and largest of the 124 detonations in the Nuclear Explosions...
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  • is popularly known to have cited the passage after witnessing the Trinity nuclear test. The phrase may also refer to: "I Am Become Death", an episode of...
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    explosions Fallout from the Trinity nuclear test Fallout (RTÉ drama)—Irish drama exploring scenarios following a nuclear accident at Sellafield. Fallout...
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  • development of nuclear weapons and their testing, from America's Trinity test of 1945 (hence the title) to the first Chinese atomic bomb test in 1964. Kuran's...
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    development of the atomic bomb. He saw the first one detonated in the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the...
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    the delivery program, codenamed Project Alberta. He watched the Trinity nuclear test from a B-29. After the war, Parsons was promoted to the rank of rear...
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