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...

persons. Trinity may also refer to Trinity (nuclear test), a nuclear weapon test in New Mexico, United States. Other uses include: Trinity (comics character)...

improved 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...

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...

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...

Operation Trinity may refer to: Trinity (nuclear test) Operation Trinity Clerkenwell crime syndicate, first post-Cold War collaboration of Mi5 to investigate...

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...

Nagasaki), effectively the same as the "Gadget" device used in the Trinity nuclear test with minor design differences. (21 kilotons, 1945–1950) Mark 4 –...

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"...

Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Nuclear testing...

Underground nuclear testing is the test detonation of nuclear weapons that is performed underground. When the device being tested is buried at sufficient...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a controlled manner pursuant to a military...

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...

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....

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...

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...

first nuclear test, detonating a plutonium-based device underground. On October 3, 2006, North Korea announced its intention to conduct a nuclear test. The...

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...

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...

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...

 'Blue Jerboa') was the codename of the first French nuclear test. It was conducted by the Nuclear Experiments Operational Group (GOEN), a unit of the...

Nuclear weapons design are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate. There are...

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...