What the records say
- When
- 16 Jul 1945
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 21
- Where
- Alamogordo
- Coordinates
- 32.54° N, 105.57° W
- Yield kt
- 21
- Type
- tower
- Purpose
- weapons development programme
- Reported by
- DOE
Trinity (nuclear test)
First detonation of a nuclear weapon
Trinity was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, or "gadget" – the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945.
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- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico, the first of an atomic bomb, using about six kilograms of plutonium, succeeds in unleashing an explosion equivalent to…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die erste Atombombe wird im Rahmen des Manhattan-Projekts beim Trinity-Test auf dem White Sands Proving Ground nahe der Stadt Alamogordo in New Mexico gezündet”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “США произвели первое в мире испытание ядерной бомбы «Тринити» на полигоне в штате Нью-Мексико”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el desierto Jornada del Muerto, a 96 km al noroeste de la ciudad de Alamogordo (estado de Nuevo México), a las 5:29:45 hora local, Estados Unidos detona su…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “アメリカ、ニューメキシコ州アラモゴードの実験場で史上初の原子爆弾の爆発実験（トリニティ実験）に成功。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page