The Gadget
A model of "The Gadget", the name given to the first atomic device exploded during the Trinity Test at Alamagordo, New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Fueled by plutonium, it tested the more complicated systems used in the device exploded over Nagasaki, Japan on 9 August 1945.
National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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The Gadget
A model of "The Gadget", the name given to the first atomic device exploded during the Trinity Test at Alamagordo, New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Fueled by plutonium, it tested the more complicated systems used in the device exploded over Nagasaki, Japan on 9 August 1945.
National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Uploaded on February 6, 2023