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The Trinity test, the first firing of an atomic weapon, took place in the White Sands Proving Ground (it is now a Missile Range): a remote part of the New Mexico desert, about 35 miles from any civilian community.

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Never, he did not work on the Manhattan Project. His only involvement was to sign a letter to FDR about the possibility of such bombs that Leo Szilard had written.

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On July 16, 1945 the first atomic bomb was tested at the Trinity site about 100 miles from Alamogordo, New Mexico.

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1945 in New Mexico.

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