Uncovered Past on Instagram: "The Trinity test explosion was the world’s first successful detonation of a nuclear weapon, carried out on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert as part of the Manhattan Project. Scientists tested a plutonium implosion device nicknamed “the Gadget,” which produced an explosion equivalent to about 20 kilotons of TNT. The blast created an enormous fireball and mushroom cloud, vaporized the steel tower holding the bomb, and fused desert sand into a glassy material la

@houseof.contents_ on Instagram: "On July 16, 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer stood in the New Mexico desert as the first atomic bomb was detonated in the Trinity test. The explosion lit the sky with an intense flash, followed by a rising fireball and a shockwave that rolled across the desert. For a brief moment, there was silence, as those watching tried to grasp the scale of what had just occurred. Oppenheimer later said the test filled him with conflicting emotions. He felt relief that the bomb w

Remastered Footage of the First Nuclear Bomb Test

Actual footage of Oppenheimer's atomic bomb test that changed the world forever