1945 Trinity nuclear test

Trinity nuclear test
File:Trinity - Jumbo after test.jpg Trinity - Jumbo after test
Official name	Trinity nuclear test
Year	1945
Date	07/16
Place	New Mexico
Place	United States
Place	North America
Perpetrator/s	USA

Official summary

Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what was then the USAAF Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, now part of White Sands Missile Range. The only structures originally in the vicinity were the McDonald Ranch House and its ancillary buildings, which scientists used as a laboratory for testing bomb components. A base camp was constructed, and there were 425 people present on the weekend of the test.

The code name "Trinity" was assigned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, inspired by the poetry of John Donne. The test was of an implosion-design plutonium device, informally nicknamed "The Gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The complexity of the design required a major effort from the Los Alamos Laboratory, and concerns about whether it would work led to a decision to conduct the first nuclear test. The test was planned and directed by Kenneth Bainbridge.

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Mainstream links

• Wikipedia: Trinity (nuclear test)

• Atomic Heritage Foundation: Trinity Test - 1945

Fakeology Classification

Nuclear scare psyops

Nuclear weapons psyops

Geopolitical psyops

See also

• 9/11
• Glossary
• Main List of psyOps
• Death of Celebrity Person
• Space fakery
• Nuke Hoax
• Plane crashes
• Various events