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Trinity was the code name of the first nuclear weapons test of an atomic bomb. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945.

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Who is the first one atomic power in the world?

The first country to develop and test an atomic bomb was the United States. This was achieved during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project, with the first successful test occurring on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity site in New Mexico. Following this, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, leading to Japan's surrender and the end of the war.


What was the name given to the project to develop the atomic bomb?

The military project to develop the US atomic bomb was the Manhattan Project. It included the first successful fission chain reaction in December, 1942, and culminated in the first atomic test explosion at Alamagordo, NM on July 16, 1945. Two bombs built under the project were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


What time did the atomic bomb on Hiroshima explode?

The mission on Hiroshima began at 8:16 a.m. on August 6, 1945. The time of actual destruction and impact was 10:34 am according to a clock in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on display. This antique wind-up pendulum 31-day clock survived the blast half intact.


When was 'I am become death the destroyer of worlds' said?

In 1965.Doctor Julius Robert Oppenheimer, professor of physics at U.C. Berkeley and scientific director of the 'Manhattan Project', said in a television interview in 1965 (about 20 years after the first atomic bomb test explosion on July 16, 1945, called "Trinity") that the explosion reminded him of a verse in the Hindu scripture Bhagavad-Gita, which he quoted as:"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."