It was called the Trinity test. It was tested in Trinity, New Mexico. It was not too far from Alamogordo New Mexico.
The test location of the first atomic bomb was located in California as it was known as the Manhattan Project.
Hiroshima was the first to be bombed in World War 2.
The atomic bomb test
The US needed a place to test the bomb, and the desert in New Mexico was the best place.
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.
The test location of the first atomic bomb was located in California as it was known as the Manhattan Project.
the first atomic bomb was tested July 16 1945 in New Mexico
August 1949
July 16, 1945
The first test was at 17.07.1945 in New Mexico.
Hiroshima was the first to be bombed in World War 2.
The first atom bomb was the test explosion at the White Sands test range in New Mexico. The first use in anger was at Hiroshima in Japan.
Ivy.There were 2 tests in this series:Mike - first test of Teller-Ulam configuration hydrogen bomb design, 10 to 12 megatonsKing - test of highest yield pure fission atomic bomb design. 500 kilotons
It was first found in the debris of an atomic bomb test in December 1952, and named in honour of Albert Einstein.
The first atomic bomb test was done on a 100 foot tall tower, not dropped from a plane (July 16, 1945).The only atomic bombs used in war were dropped from planes (August 6 & 9, 1945).The first atomic bomb test after the end of WW2 was dropped from a plane (July 1, 1946).
The atomic bomb test
They did test the bomb first, in 1945 at the White Sands Proving Grounds near Socorro, New Mexico.