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  2. Trinity (nuclear test) - Wikipedia

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    The requirements expanded and by July 1945 250 people worked at the Trinity test site. On the weekend of the test, there were 425 present. [32] The Trinity test base camp. Lieutenant Bush's twelve-man MP unit arrived at the site from Los Alamos on December 30, 1944. This unit established initial security checkpoints and horse patrols.

  3. List of nuclear weapon explosion sites - Wikipedia

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    During the 1958 moratorium on nuclear testing, a number of sub-critical tests were performed underground to learn more about the dynamics of explosions and the metallurgy of plutonium. The US's first nuclear weapons lab, founded in the Manhattan Project in high secrecy. Tech Area 49 is an open area south of the lab, where zero-yield tests were ...

  4. 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.

  5. List of United States nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    Trinity, part of Project Manhattan, was the first ever nuclear explosion. The nuclear weapons tests of the United States were performed from 1945 to 1992 as part of the nuclear arms race. The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, including 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests.

  6. This map shows what your neighborhood would look like if a ...

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    SEE ALSO: The 6 Best Places to Live in the Event of Nuclear War To use the map, simply type in your address and zip code and choose your bomb of choice. The visualization can show you how the ...

  7. Nevada Test Site - Wikipedia

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    The final nuclear test detonation at site was Operation Julin's "Divider" on September 23, 1992, just prior to the moratorium ending all nuclear testing. [46] Divider was a safety experiment test shot that was detonated at the bottom of a shaft sunk into Area 3.

  8. Map of US claims to show areas most at risk of being ... - AOL

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    A map claiming to show the areas of the US that may be targeted in a nuclear war that originally circulated in 2015 is making the rounds again, amid the Russian war in Ukraine.. The map indicates ...

  9. 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.