Photo credit:
Berlyn Brixner
The
Trinity nuclear test explosion, .016 seconds after detonation. The fireball is about 200 metres (700 ft) wide. Conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945, at a location 35 miles (56 km) southeast of
Socorro, New Mexico, on what is now
White Sands Missile Range, Trinity was the first
test of technology for a
nuclear weapon.
Photo credit:
Berlyn Brixner
The
Trinity nuclear test explosion, .016 seconds after detonation. The fireball is about 200 metres (700 ft) wide. Conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945, at a location 35 miles (56 km) southeast of
Socorro, New Mexico, on what is now
White Sands Missile Range, Trinity was the first
test of technology for a
nuclear weapon.