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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. Once twice a year, now just once, Trinity Site open house ...

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    Typically, the site is open to the public twice a year: once in April, and once in October. This year, budgetary constraints limited that to just one event. October was picked due to more ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Thousands flock to Trinity Site for the first time since ...

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    Visitors flocked to the New Mexico site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated, on October 21. The Trinity Site is open to the public twice a year.

  7. Jornada del Muerto - Wikipedia

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    The Trinity nuclear test site, the location of the first test of an atomic bomb in 1945 is in the northern portion of the Jornada. Natural history

  8. Time is running out for American victims of nuclear tests ...

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    The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert. This photograph is the only existing color shot of the Trinity test and was taken by an amateur, Jack Aeby ...

  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.