Nuclear weapons testing
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Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Over 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been carried out since 1945.
The mushroom cloud from the Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test in 1954, the largest nuclear weapons test ever conducted by the United States
Subcritical experiment at the Nevada National Security Site
The Phoenix of Hiroshima (foreground) in Hong Kong Harbor in 1967; it was involved in several famous anti-nuclear protest voyages against nuclear testing in the Pacific.
The first atomic test, "Trinity", took place on July 16, 1945.
Trinity (nuclear test)
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Trinity was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was of an implosio
Nuclear weapons testing
…have been performed, with most in the second half of the 20th century. The first nuclear device was detonated as a test by the United States at the Trinity site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, with a yield approximately equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT. The first thermonuclear weapon technology test of an…
Trinity Site obelisk
Trinity Site (red arrow) near Carrizozo Malpais
The Trinity test base camp