Did the Trinity test bomb contain plutonium?

The Trinity Test was the first test of a nuclear device. The bomb detonated at the trinity test was an implosion-type plutonium bomb nicknamed 'the gadget' the bomb was the same type of bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki Japan.

Trinity test device was Plutonium fueled. Hiroshima gravity bomb was Uranium fueled. Nagasaki gravity bomb was Plutonium fueled.

Approximately none. The first bomb, "Gadget," was the one set off in the Trinity test. The second bomb, "Little Boy," was the Hiroshima bomb. It used uranium, not plutonium.

The first bomb exploded, the Trinity test bomb, used plutonium. The first bomb deployed, dropped on Hiroshima, used uranium 235. The second bomb deployed, dropped on Nagasaki, used plutonium 239.

Plutonium was used in the Trinity test, Uranium in the first combat weapon.

The fissile fuel in the first 3 bombs was: Plutonium, Trinity test, July 16, 1945 Uranium, Hiroshima attack, August 6, 1945 Plutonium, Nagasaki attack, August 9, 1945 Trinity test Gadget: Plutonium. First atomic bomb detonation. Hiroshima Little Boy: 80% enriched Uranium. First atomic bomb used in combat. Take your pick.

The first bomb that was used on people (Little Boy) used Highly Enriched Uranium as its fissile material. The first tested bomb at the Trinity Test used Plutonium as its fissile material.

The fissile isotopes used in the first bombs are the same as used in current bombs: Uranium-235 and/or Plutonium-239. Plutonium is most common, as can be seen from the following list of the first 5 bomb detonations: Trinity proof test, Plutonium-239 Little Boy, Uranium-235, first combat use, Hiroshima Fat Man, Plutonium-239, second & last combat use, Nagasaki Crossroads Able effects test, Plutonium-239 Crossroads Baker effects test, Plutonium-239

Although there was no doubt that the Hiroshima gun barrel uranium design would work, there were some doubts and unanswered questions re the spherical plutonium implosion design that were resolved by the Trinity test.

The Trinity test shot was done to verify the Plutonium implosion mechanism. The Hiroshima bombing was the beginning of nuclear war with Japan to force them to surrender.

The first nuclear weapons were built in the summer of 1945 during WW2 by the United States. Only three were detonated before WW2 ended: July 16, Trinity test of plutonium bomb August 6, Hiroshima combat using uranium bomb August 9, Nagasaki combat using plutonium bomb

Plutonium was used in the first A-bomb, the Trinity test of July 16, 1945. Uranium, more specifically ore highly-enriched in U-235, was used to create the "Little Boy" bomb dropped on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945). The "Fat Man" dropped on Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) was another plutonium "implosion" bomb with about 40% higher yield than Little Boy. Plutonium became the typical fissile element in fission-fusion bombs.

In the test bomb, the material was plutonium. Plutonium was also used in one of the bombs dropped on Japan, Fat Man. Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, was made of uranium.

No, the bomb was built in Los Alamos, NM. However the plutonium used in the Trinity test shot and the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki was made in reactors at Hanford, WA. The uranium used in the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima was enriched in Oakridge, TN.

The Nagasaki bomb 'Fat Man' was plutonium, as was the first nuclear device ever exploded, called the 'gadget', in the Trinity test near Alamogordo, New Mexico. In between these, the first bomb ever used in war was dropped on Hiroshima. This was the gun-type uranium bomb. Uranium-238 cannot support the fast neutron chain reaction required to get an explosion. Note: both bombs DID contain significant amounts of Uranium-238, but it was used as a high… Read More

Trinity was the first test of technology for a nuclear weapon. It was 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, headquartered near Alamogordo. Trinity was a test of an implosion-design plutonium bomb. The Fat Man bomb, using the same conceptual design, was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9th. The Trinity detonation was… Read More

Trinity is usually estimated at 20 kilotons.

The [Manhattan] project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation of a plutonium implosion bomb on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a second plutonium bomb, code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. More information may be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project

The 1st atomic bomb codenamed the "Gadget" was exploded on July 16, 1945 SW of Socorro, New Mexico. It was an implosion type bomb using Plutonium 239. It was a test of nuclear bombs codenamed the "Trinity" test. The 2nd atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy" was exploded on August 6th, 1945 over the city of Hiroshima in Japan. It was a gun type bomb using Uranium 235. It was the 1st bomb dropped in anger… Read More

It was called the Trinity test. It was tested in Trinity, New Mexico. It was not too far from Alamogordo New Mexico.

July 16, 1945 Gadget, Trinity Test tower shot, NM - Plutonium August 6, 1945 Little Boy, Combat airburst, Hiroshima - Uranium August 9, 1945 Fatman, Combat airburst, Nagasaki - Plutonium July 1, 1946 Able, Crossroads Effects Test airburst, Bikini atoll - Plutonium July 25, 1946 Baker, Crossroads Effects Test shallow underwater, Bikini atoll - Plutonium Canceled 1946 Charlie, Crossroads Effects Test deep underwater, Bikini atoll - Plutonium etc. Take your pick, either the first atomic… Read More

The first atomic "bomb" tested was a implosion type plutonium device named "the Gadget" at the Trinity test site near Alamogordo, New Mexico in the USA. Although it was not a deliverable weapon its explosive core was almost exactly the same as the "Fat Man" bomb used on Nagasaki. The word bomb was not actually used due to fears of espionage. The term device was used instead.

First 9 nuclear explosives (2 used as weapons), built up to end of Operation Crossroads: Trinity test device, plutonium implosion, July 16, 1945 - 100 foot tower Little Boy bomb, uranium gun, August 6, 1945 Hiroshima - airburst Fat Man bomb, plutonium implosion, August 9, 1945 Nagasaki - airburst Crossroads Able bomb, unknown, 1946 Bikini atoll lagoon - airburst Crossroads Baker bomb, unknown, 1946 Bikini atoll lagoon - underwater burst Stockpile bomb, unknown Stockpile bomb… Read More

A hydrogen bomb was not dropped on Japan. It was dropped years later as a test and to determine how it acted in comparison to the plutonium and uranium bombs.

The Trinity Tests or the Atomic Bomb testing took place on July 16, 1945.

It's unofficial name was 'The Gadget'.

Trinity test site, NM on July 16, 1945.

There was only one test. The world's first atomic explosion occurred at 05:29:45 MDT on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity test site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima about three weeks later, on August 6, 1945, was not the same design as the Trinity test device. The second bomb, which was dropped on Nagasaki, was similar to the Trinity device.

On July 16th 1945, the US tested their atomic bomb called Trinity in the Jornada Del Muerto desert in New Mexico. This test often marks the beginning of the Atomic Age, as the Trinity tests were followed by the atomic bomb in Nagaski, Japan in August 1945.

The first atomic bomb dropped on Japan was dropped on Hiroshima. A second bomb later was used against Nagasaki, after no response from the Japanese. There is also the Trinity test, which was a test to see if it would explode in the force it was supposed to, and that was in New Mexico.

Nagasaki , Japan edit: If you consider test bombings, Hiroshima, Japan was actually the second place to be bombed after the Trinity nuclear test.

That was called THE TRINITY TEST. In the early 1940s, the U.S. government authorized a top-secret program of nuclear testing and development, code named "The Manhattan Project." In July 1945, Los Alamos scientists successfully exploded the first atomic bomb at the Trinity test site, located in nearby Alamogordo.

The first actual test-firing of an atomic bomb was July 16, 1945. The codename for the test was Trinity; the bomb itself was generally referred to as "the Gadget". The Gadget was a plutonium implosion device, and the test was necessary in order to make sure that the fairly complex mechanical (i.e. non-nuclear) portions of the design would actually work to bring together a critical mass. A similar device, known as Fat Man, was dropped… Read More

The US, at the Trinity test site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

Trinity site, NM test explosion Hiroshima, Japan first combat explosion

In 16 July 1945. (The nuclear test was called Trinity)

Absolutely, their spies had given them the full plans prior to the Trinity test in July.

The Trinity test site in what is now the northeast corner of White Sands Missile Range in NM.

It was designed and the kits of parts were crated at Los Alamos, NM. The Trinity test device was assembled at the Trinity site. The two bombs dropped on Japan were assembled on the island of Tinian.

Many elements were used in the first atomic bombs in the nonnuclear parts. As I cannot possibly list them all (the most common elements were the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen used in the chemical explosives) I will only address the elements used as the nuclear fuel that powered the atomic explosion. Gadget, plutonium-239 (Trinity site test on July 16, 1945) Little Boy, uranium-235 (Hiroshima bombing on August 6, 1945) Fatman, plutonium-239 (Nagasaki bombing on August… Read More

The Gadget was detonated July 16, 1945 at the Trinity test site on a 100 foot tall steel tower.

The test was codenamed Trinity, the bomb was codenamed Gadget.

The first 2 bombs were nicknamed Little Boy, and Fat Man The first test firing of an atomic weapon was named Trinity

The US built a weapon and fired it as a test shot to prove the technology. Then the two bombs that were dropped on Japan were built and deployed. As regards the fissile material in the weapons, the Trinity test shot used plutonium, as did the second bomb dropped on Japan, the "Fat Man" weapon deployed over Nagasaki. The "Little Boy" deployed over Hiroshima, the first use of a nuclear weapon other than the test… Read More

The first atomic bomb was the Trinity Bomb developed by the Manhattan Project; and detonated at the White Sands Test Ground near Alamagordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

The nickname of the first atomic bomb (the one set off in the Trinity test) was "the gadget". Little Boy was the first atomic bomb designed but the one detonated; it was the one detonated over Hiroshima (so it was the first one anyone outside the Manhattan Project knew about). Little Boy was called that because of its shape: Fat Man (the third bomb, detonated over Nagasaki) and the gadget were nearly spherical, but Little… Read More

Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project engineers test the bomb in the desert of New Mexico. It was an area called Trinity. It was near Alamogordo. Some of the city people could see the bomb mushroom a hundred miles away. Oppenheimer was disturbed by what he saw when Gadget was dropped.

The Gadget was tested at Trinity site in NM, near the northeast corner of what is now White Sands Missile Range.

The Trinity Test in July 1945 was a preliminary test before actual use of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The war in Europe with the Germans ended on May 8, 1945, almost two months prior to this test. So it was not a probability.

The first atomic bomb detonated was the Trinity Test Bomb on July 16, 1945. It had the estimated explosive power eqivalent of 20,000 Tons of TNT. It was identical to the bomb dropped on Nagasaki 3 weeks later. The Hiroshima bomb was of a different design and was about 15,000 Tons equvalent.