Trinity Shot (1945)

Courtesy: U.S. Department of Energy 0800001 Trinity - 1945 - 12:00 - Color, Sanitized, Silent - Trinity Shot was part of the secret Manhattan Project - the atomic bomb project charged with designing, developing, testing, and firing a weaponization of the newly discovered phenomenon, fission, the splitting of nuclei of heavy particles to release energy. Nicknamed “Gadget,“ the device was exploded at the Trinity Site in southeastern New Mexico, near Alamogordo as the first proof test of the concept of impl