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The Trinity Test (Encore)

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The Trinity Test

The world's first atomic bomb was detonated at the Trinity test site on July 16, 1945. The detonation was scheduled for 4 a.m., but light rain postponed it for an hour and a half. There were 50 cameras set up, both still and moving pictures to capture the explosion. One camera was capable of taking 10,000 images per second. They actually wanted better weather, which was forecast for July 18 through the 21st, but politics got in the way. In 2021, it was re-measured at 25 kilotons of TNT using the original data. It was over 10 times greater than the power of the Halifax explosion.

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