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id: 277
title: Trinity Site
author: National Atomic Museum (U.S.)
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  the first atomic bomb was tested in an isolated area of the New Mexico Manhattan Engineer District, this test was code named Trinity. Trinity test took place on the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, The origin of the code name Trinity for the test site is also abandoned George McDonald ranch house located two miles south of the test site served as the assembly point for the device''s core. assembly, the plutonium core was transported to Trinity Site to be Later Trinity Site was opened one additional day on the "Trinity Site Where the World''s First Nuclear Device Was Exploded on Trinity Site are the rusty remains of Jumbo. available; second, the Project scientists decided that the Trinity destroy Jumbo, the Army then buried it in the desert near Trinity Site. The Schmidt-McDonald ranch house is located two miles south of Ground developed, built, and tested the world''s first Atomic bomb in New


id: 278
title: Trinity Site: 1945-1995. A National Historic Landmark, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
author: White Sands Missile Range (N.M.). Public Affairs Office
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  In deciding whether to visit ground zero at Trinity Site, the Trinity Site, where the world''s first atomic bomb was exploded in time the Trinity Site detonation occurred, and should help visitors Included on the Trinity Site tour is Ground Zero where the atomic bomb ranch house where the world''s first plutonium core for a bomb was Trinity Site is where the first atomic bomb was tested at 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945. explosion; and the McDonald ranch house, where the plutonium core to Los Alamos scientists devised two designs for an atomic bomb--one The bomb design to be used at Trinity Site actually involved two McDonald ranch house just two miles from ground zero. Trinity Site became part of what was then White Sands Proving Ground. The land, including Trinity Site and the old Alamogordo Bombing Range, For more information on Trinity Site or White Sands Missile Range


id: 279
title: Photos and Maps of Trinity (Atomic Test) Site
author: nan
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  Photos and Maps of Trinity (Atomic Test) Site The picture files are courtesy of U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs Office: basecamp.gif -Base camp for Trinity site workers. blast.gif -Trinity test blast at 10 seconds. crater.gif -Oppenheimer and Groves examine tower piling in crater. gadget1.gif -Lifting the "gadget" into the 100-foot tower. gadget2.gif -Norris Bradbury with the "gadget". jumbo.gif -Unloading Jumbo. mcdonald.gif -McDonald-Schmidt ranch house, where plutonium core was assembled. patch.gif -Patch issued to Manhattan Project military participants. tr_map1.gif -Map of roads to Trinity Site and visitors'' site map. whitsand.gif -Emblem of the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range.


id: 685
title: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District
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  dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 the second bomb on the industrial section of the city of Nagasaki, result in both cities of the following effects of the explosions: number of high explosive bombs were dropped on the city. Japanese cities which of the two bombs had been the most effective. damage in Hiroshima was much more complete; the center of the city was GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS In Hiroshima, steel frame buildings suffered severe structural damage In general, the atomic bomb explosion damaged all windows and ripped the Japanese cities as a result of the atomic bombing. damage and point directly under the air-burst explosion of the bomb, is damage was not achieved in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, the explosion of the bomb at 8:15, almost the entire city was destroyed at


id: 548
title: Project Trinity, 1945-1946
author: Rohrer, Steve
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  1,000 personnel, both military and civilian, in Project TRINITY, which civilian personnel took part in Project TRINITY or visited the test according to film badge readings and time spent in the test area, and either participated in Project TRINITY activities or visited the test military personnel in Project TRINITY. Ground zero for the TRINITY detonation was at UTM coordinates Post 8, the only access to the ground zero area from the Base Camp, personnel at the test site at the time of detonation has not been located 14 kilometers northwest of ground zero near Guard Post 2 personnel entering the ground zero area wore complete protective On the day of the shot, five parties entered the ground zero area. ground zero area to retrieve soil samples on 16 and 17 July. o Minimize radiation exposure of personnel on the test site and in leave the shelter areas, a radiological safety monitor and a military


