Trinity was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time [a] (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project.

Oct 3, 2024 · The explosion point was named Trinity Site. Although no information on the test was released until after the atomic bomb had been used as a weapon, the flash of light and shock …

Jun 18, 2014 · After three years of research and experimentation, the world’s first nuclear device, the “Gadget,” was successfully detonated in the New Mexico desert. This inaugural test …

Nov 6, 2025 · The Trinity test was the detonation of the first atomic bomb at 5:29:45 am on July 16, 1945. The bomb, a plutonium implosion device called Gadget, was exploded at the …

Jul 16, 2015 · The success of the Trinity test meant that both types of bombs -- the uranium design, untested but thought to be reliable, and the plutonium design, which had just been …

The world's first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the barren plains …

Apr 23, 2010 · At 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, Los Alamos scientists detonated a plutonium bomb at a test site located on the U.S. Air Force base at Alamogordo, New Mexico, some 120 miles …

On July 16 1945, in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert at 5:30 a.m., the U.S. Army conducted the first ever detonation of a nuclear weapon as part of the Manhattan Project. …

On July 16, 1945 the first nuclear bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Trinity test marked the culmination of nearly four years of secret research led by an unprecedented …

Mar 12, 1999 · The first nuclear explosion in history took place in New Mexico, at the Alamogordo Test Range, on the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) desert, in the test named Trinity.