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The Trinity test is depicted in its fifth episode. [176] In early 1981, a documentary titled The Day After Trinity was released, focusing closely on the events of the Trinity test. [ 177 ] In 1989, a feature film titled Fat Man and Little Boy depicted the Trinity test. [ 178 ]
Trinitite. Trinitite, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass, [1] [2] is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Although nuclear chain reactions had been hypothesized in 1933 and the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (Chicago Pile-1) had taken place in December 1942, [1] the Trinity test and the ensuing bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II represented the first large-scale use of nuclear technology and ushered ...
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie is a 1995 American documentary film directed by Peter Kuran and narrated by William Shatner. [ 3 ] Using restored archive footage, the film traces the development of nuclear weapons and their testing , from America's Trinity test of 1945 (hence the title) to the first Chinese atomic bomb test in 1964 .
Laurence was born Leib Wolf Siew in Salantai, a small city in the Russian Empire that is now in Lithuania.He emigrated to the United States in 1905, after participating in the Russian Revolution of 1905, and he soon changed his name, taking "William" after William Shakespeare, "Leonard" after Leonardo da Vinci, and "Laurence" after a street he lived on in Roxbury, Massachusetts (but spelled ...
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No mention is made of instrumentation used to record the test. You really should work a link to rainout into the last paragraph of the "preparing the test" section. No mention is made of the actual yield. No mention is made of the window-breaking effects of the explosion. No mention is made of the reaction of area residents to the explosion.