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  2. 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.

  3. Trinity (nuclear test) - Wikipedia

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    The short film Nuclear Test Film – Nuclear Testing Review (1945) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. Trinity's cloud (1945) , photographs of mushroom cloud Video of the site, original blast, and the ranch where the bomb was assembled from 2017

  4. File:Trinity Test Fireball 16ms.jpg - Wikipedia

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  5. Five things to know about the Trinity Test - AOL

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    Jul. 14—The Trinity Test was the first nuclear explosion in history. On July 16, 1945, Los Alamos scientists set off the first atomic bomb in New Mexico's desert. That test is part of a legacy ...

  6. List of nuclear weapon explosion sites - Wikipedia

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    It includes nuclear test sites, nuclear combat sites, launch sites for rockets forming part of a nuclear test, and peaceful nuclear test (PNE) sites. There are a few non-nuclear sites included, such as the Degelen Omega chemical blast sites, which are intimately involved with nuclear testing. Listed with each is an approximate location and ...

  7. List of nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    The Trinity test on 16 July 1945, near Socorro, New Mexico, was the first-ever test of a nuclear weapon (yield of around 20 kilotons). The Operation Crossroads series in July 1946, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands , was the first postwar test series and one of the largest military operations in U.S. history.

  8. Portal:Nuclear technology/Pictures - Wikipedia

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    It was claimed at the time to be the first British test of a H-bomb. It was later revealed to be a fusion boosted fission nuclear weapon test, where the fusion boosting failed to increase the yield. It still yielding 720 kT of explosive power, probably the largest A-bomb test ever.

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