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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.
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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.
The people of New Mexico were the first victims of the atomic bomb, the result of the Manhattan Project's Trinity Test on July 16, 1945.
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 been detonated five weeks prior. The legend was first published in 2003 and was widely publicized in a 2021 book by longtime ufologist Jacques Vallée and Paola Leopizzi Harris.
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.
Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion (July 16, 1945). The Day After Trinity (or The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb) is a 1981 documentary film directed and produced by Jon H. Else in association with KTEH public television in San Jose, California.