Trinity nuclear test explosion. Photo credit: Jack W Aeby, July 16, 1945, Civilian worker at Los Alamos laboratory At 5. 29am on July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world’s first nuclear device at the Trinity test site in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert. The explosion marked the beginning of the nuclear age.Weeks later, US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan subsequently surrendered, bringing the Second World War to an end. The Trinity test also changed military planning and international relations by introducing weapons capable of causing destruction on an unprecedented scale.‘It’s True, Iran’s Nuclear Bomb…’:...
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