Recorded History

Recorded History

The Atomic Age

16 July 1945

At 5:29 a.m. on 16 July 1945, a plutonium implosion device nicknamed the Gadget was detonated from a 100-foot tower at the Trinity site in the New Mexico desert, near Alamogordo.

The Trinity test detonated the first nuclear device in the New Mexico desert.

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