The First Atomic Bomb Test: The Trinity Test in New Mexico
In-person walking tour 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesJanet Farrell Brodie Professor Emerita of US History at Claremont Graduate University On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the end of World War II, the United States exploded the world’s first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley…