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 Los...
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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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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 commentary...
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underground nuclear tests conducted in the period from 1957 to 1992 was 1,352 explosions with a total yield of 90 Mt. The first atomic test, "Trinity", took place...
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at Trinity on July 16, 1945. "Trinity Test, July 16, 1945, Eyewitness Accounts – Enrico Fermi". Retrieved November 4, 2014. "Eyewitnesses to Trinity" (PDF)...
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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 August 16, 1923, in...
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and the futile nature of war in the atomic age. The name refers to the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, which took place in July 1945. It is Infocom's...
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The Trinity UFO case is a crashed unidentified object story-conspiracy theory set in August 1945 near the Trinity test, where the first atomic bomb had...
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Manhattan Project (section Trinity)
nuclear device ever detonated was an implosion-type bomb during the Trinity test, conducted at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico on 16 July 1945...
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Operation Crossroads (redirect from BAKER test)
nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945...
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Oppenheimer believes it would end the ongoing Pacific War and save lives. The Trinity test is successful, and President Harry S. Truman orders the atomic bombings...
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the hemispheres during implosion. The core of the device used in the Trinity Test at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in July did not have such...
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Director of the Manhattan Project's Trinity nuclear test, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge described the Trinity explosion as a "foul and awesome...
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White Sands Missile Range (category Weapons test sites)
established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, where the Trinity test site lay at the northern end of the Range, in Socorro County near the...
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fallout from nuclear testing grew in the early 1950s. Fallout was discovered after the Trinity test, the first ever atomic bomb test, in 1945. Photographic...
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Nuclear explosion (section Nuclear testing)
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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English-language tests worldwide, including IELTS, Pearson Test of English (PTE), Duolingo English Test, Cambridge Assessment English, and Trinity College London...
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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...
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warfare, and the second nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity nuclear test. It exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ)...
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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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J. Robert Oppenheimer (section Trinity)
success, and on July 16, 1945, he was present at the first test of the atomic bomb, Trinity. In August 1945, the weapons were used on Japan in the atomic...
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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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following the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, The Gadget at the Trinity test in New Mexico on 16 July 1945 during World War II. Although nuclear chain...
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Hypocenter (section Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
The term "ground zero" originally referred to the hypocenter of the Trinity test in Jornada del Muerto desert near Socorro, New Mexico, and the atomic...
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Berlyn Brixner (section Trinity)
2009) was an American photographer. He was the head photographer for the Trinity test, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in July 1945. Brixner was positioned...
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ends by detailing the Trinity Test of the first nuclear bomb. The book continues by exploring the events following the Trinity Test. Oppenheimer was aware...
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of the final assembly of "the Gadget", detonated in July 1945 for the Trinity test. Bradbury took charge at Los Alamos at a difficult time. Staff were leaving...
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the fission threshold of uranium-238. In the Fat Man type used in the Trinity test and at Nagasaki, the tamper consisted of 7.0-centimetre (2.75 in) shells...
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1944 and February 1945. The plutonium from the site was used in the Trinity test, the Fat Man bomb detonated above Nagasaki, the demon core, and thousands...
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by the United States include: The Trinity test on 16 July 1945, near Socorro, New Mexico, was the first-ever test of a nuclear weapon (yield of around...
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