Trinity nuclear test

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
nuclear test
gptkbp:announced 1945-08-06
gptkbp:codename gptkb:Trinity
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Trinity_Site_National_Historic_Landmark
gptkbp:conductedBy gptkb:United_States_Army
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:date 1945-07-16
gptkbp:deviceName Gadget
gptkbp:distanceFromGroundZero 0 (ground zero)
gptkbp:explosionTime 05:29:21 local time
gptkbp:filmDocumented yes
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Hiroshima_bombing
gptkb:Nagasaki_bombing
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Trinity nuclear test
gptkbp:location gptkb:Jornada_del_Muerto
gptkb:White_Sands_Proving_Ground
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Enrico_Fermi
gptkb:General_Leslie_Groves
gptkb:George_Kistiakowsky
gptkb:Hans_Bethe
gptkb:J._Robert_Oppenheimer
gptkb:James_Chadwick
gptkb:Kenneth_Bainbridge
gptkb:Norris_Bradbury
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:Vannevar_Bush
gptkbp:oversees gptkb:J._Robert_Oppenheimer
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Manhattan_Project
gptkbp:photographed gptkb:Berlyn_Brixner
gptkbp:platform plutonium implosion-type
gptkbp:precededBy none
gptkbp:purpose to assess effects of nuclear explosion
to inform military strategy
to test design of plutonium bomb
to validate implosion method
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Fat_Man
gptkb:Little_Boy
gptkb:Los_Alamos_Laboratory
gptkb:World_War_II
gptkb:atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
gptkbp:resultedIn development of atomic bomb
radioactive fallout
gptkbp:series gptkb:Manhattan_Project
gptkbp:significance first detonation of a nuclear weapon
gptkbp:type atmospheric
gptkbp:yield about 20 kilotons of TNT
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Manhattan_Project
gptkbp:bfsLayer 2