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The Trinity test ⚛️
On this day in 1945, the world’s first nuclear device, “Gadget,” was detonated atop a 100-foot steel tower at the Trinity Site in southern New Mexico. |
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Today in 1945 at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory—one day after the TRINITY test—Chief Physicist Leo Szilard signed and circulated a petition to President Truman urging him to wei… |
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81 years ago today, a 21-kiloton test in the New Mexico desert gave humanity the power to destroy itself - and in the eight decades since, no two nuclear-armed powers have ever
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On this 81st anniversary of the Trinity test which opened the Atomic Age, here's a chronologically-ordered recommendation of topical videos thebulletin.org/premium/2026... #trinity #TheBomb #A-bomb… |
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Interesting that the O.G. “big bug” giant atomic monster movie #Them is airing on the anniversary of the Trinity test in the New Mexico desert (July 16, 1945). #TCMParty |
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An amazing thing about White Sands in New Mexico is it’s big enough to fire off a nuclear bomb at the Trinity site, and also host a national park, an Air Force base and a missile range |
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apnews.com/today-in-his...
Today in History: July 16, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ published 1952; Trinity nuclear weapon test |
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On this day, 81 years ago, the Trinity Test, took place: www.youtube.com/shorts/9STi5...
Following that “successful” detonation, atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki weeks later.
Now, … |
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81 years ago
July 16, 1945.
The Trinity Test
Welcome to the Age of Nuclear Weapons.
Let's hope the streak continues |
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📅 Mon. 05:29:45 16-Jul-1945 UTC-04 (Mon. 09:29:45 16-Jul-1945 UTC)︱The Trinity test lit the New Mexico desert and opened the nuclear age. It was a scientific triumph inseparable from the terror tha… |
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A highly unusual way to visualize the Trinity test: graph from Julian Mack, "JULY 16th [1945] NUCLEAR EXPLOSION: SPACE-TIME RELATIONSHIPS" (April 2, 1946). This is, as Mack puts it, "a compilation … |
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#NewMexico
"First We Bombed New Mexico is the untold story of Trinity, the world’s first nuclear bomb, detonated in New Mexico one month before Hiroshima."
https://www.firstwebombednewmexico.com/f… |
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Or all the fallout that drifted into our country from nuclear tests? Today is the anniversary of the Trinity Test, the first of many tests to spread fallout over the border. |
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Trinity, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, was conducted near Alamogordo, New Mexico, #OTD in 1945. The test used a Fat Man (Mark III) plutonium bomb of the same design as that detonated la… |
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On July 16, 1945, the Trinity Test lit the New Mexico desert with the first atomic explosion. On the same day, parts of Little Boy left Hunters Point aboard USS Indianapolis, beginning their journe… |
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The Atomic Age began on this day in 1945 when the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, NM. |
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#OnThisDay Today marks the 81st anniversary of the Trinity Test. "In the early hours of July 16, 1945, the US detonated the first atomic bomb—known as the Trinity test—in the Jornada del Muerto des… |
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On July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, NM, the Trinity Test started, powered by the plutonium from Hanford, Washington. It was the world’s first detonated nuke, creating a mushroom cloud 40,000 feet hi… |
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The Trinity nuclear test, 81 years ago today. Oppenheimer: 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' |
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Originally compiled by Thomas Gaulkin for the 75th anniversary of the Trinity test, these eyewitness accounts continue to provide a novel retelling of the nuclear detonation, woven entirely from wo… |
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Today marks 81 years since the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945: the Trinity test.
Here's a selection of Bulletin articles examining the event and its wide-ranging impact. |
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What If Nuclear Weapons Were Never Invented?
The Trinity test anniversary marks the day physics became a weapon. Without it, the Cold War has no teeth and deterrence needs a new theory.
https://p… |
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OTD 81 years ago, at 5:30am, the nuclear age began in earnest at the Trinity Test Site, now part of the White Sands Missile Range. The site is only open to the public on one day per year (3rd Satur… |
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Today marks 81 years since the Trinity Test, July 16, 1945- the first US nuclear bomb exploded starting the global nuclear arms race. |
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“Now I am become Death,
the destroyer of worlds “
On this day in 1945 recalling the Trinity nuclear test.
For who had the codes now ,
this is for djt and Mr Low-T
youtu.be/LQUXuQ6Zd9w?... |
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Trinity Test anniversary
Today marks 81 years since the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945. Below is a selection of Bulletin articles examining the event and its wide-ranging imp… |
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WATCH: Ben Shelton's girlfriend Trinity Rodman forced to breathe through oxygen mask as wildfire smoke ravages NYC |
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“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
— J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, recalling the Trinity nuclear test of July 16, 1945 |
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81 years ago today, on July 16, 1945, the United States Army conducted the "Trinity" nuclear test, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in known history. The test was conducted without evacuati… |
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81st anniversary of the 'trinity' site first nuclear weapon detonation. |
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