Trinity test (1945)

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf nuclear test
gptkbp:codename gptkb:Trinity
gptkbp:conductedBy gptkb:United_States_Army
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:date 1945-07-16
gptkbp:deviceName gptkb:The_Gadget
gptkbp:distanceFromGroundZero 100 feet (30 m) tower
gptkbp:explosionTime 05:29:21 local time
Mountain War Time
gptkbp:fallout radioactive fallout detected
gptkbp:firstNuclearExplosion true
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Trinity test (1945)
gptkbp:location gptkb:Jornada_del_Muerto
gptkb:White_Sands_Proving_Ground
gptkbp:oversees gptkb:J._Robert_Oppenheimer
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Manhattan_Project
gptkbp:photographed gptkb:Berlyn_Brixner
gptkb:Edgerton,_Germeshausen,_and_Grier,_Inc.
Jack Aeby
gptkbp:publicDisclosure 1945-08-06
gptkbp:purpose to test design of implosion-type bomb
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Hiroshima_bombing
gptkb:Nagasaki_bombing
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Fat_Man_bomb
gptkb:Little_Boy_bomb
gptkb:Los_Alamos_Laboratory
gptkb:Operation_Crossroads
gptkb:Project_Alberta
gptkb:World_War_II
gptkb:Tinian
nuclear arms race
atomic age
Nuclear weapons testing
gptkbp:resultedIn development of atomic bomb
use of nuclear weapons in World War II
gptkbp:significance first detonation of a nuclear weapon
gptkbp:testDevice gptkb:The_Gadget
gptkbp:type plutonium implosion-type
gptkbp:witnessedBy gptkb:Arthur_Compton
gptkb:Charles_Critchfield
gptkb:Donald_Hornig
gptkb:Edward_Teller
gptkb:Emilio_Segrè
gptkb:Enrico_Fermi
gptkb:Ernest_O._Lawrence
gptkb:Felix_Bloch
gptkb:Frank_Oppenheimer
gptkb:General_Leslie_Groves
gptkb:George_Cowan
gptkb:George_Kistiakowsky
gptkb:George_Placzek
gptkb:Hans_Bethe
gptkb:Harold_Agnew
gptkb:Herbert_York
gptkb:Isidor_Isaac_Rabi
gptkb:James_Chadwick
gptkb:John_H._Manley
gptkb:John_H._Williams
gptkb:John_Manley
gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkb:Joseph_Hirschfelder
gptkb:Kenneth_Bainbridge
gptkb:Luis_Alvarez
gptkb:Marshall_Holloway
gptkb:Norman_Ramsey
gptkb:Norris_Bradbury
gptkb:Otto_Frisch
gptkb:Philip_Morrison
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:Richard_Tolman
gptkb:Robert_Bacher
gptkb:Robert_Christy
gptkb:Robert_R._Wilson
gptkb:Robert_Serber
gptkb:Robert_Wilson
gptkb:Vannevar_Bush
gptkb:Victor_Weisskopf
gptkb:William_Higinbotham
gptkb:William_L._Laurence
gptkb:William_Penney
gptkb:William_Sterling_Parsons
gptkb:Raemer_Schreiber
gptkb:Darol_Froman
gptkb:Herbert_L._Anderson
gptkb:Samuel_K._Allison
gptkb:Louis_Slotin
Brigadier General Thomas Farrell
Jack Aeby
gptkbp:yield about 20 kilotons of TNT
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:U.S._nuclear_arsenal
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7