Daily Curiosityby Erudico

General History · Question

When was "The Gadget", the first nuclear device to be detonated, tested?

Answer

July 16, 1945

The story behind the answer

July 16, 1945 is correct because that’s when the United States conducted the Trinity test near Alamogordo, New Mexico—the first-ever detonation of a nuclear device, nicknamed “The Gadget.” It was a plutonium implosion design developed by the

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