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Nuclear Test Sites: Malden Island, Johnston Atoll, Kiritimati, Trinity, Nevada National Security Site, Lop Lake, Amchitka, Yucca Flat


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Malden Island, Johnston Atoll, Kiritimati, Trinity, Nevada National Security Site, Lop Lake, Amchitka, Yucca Flat, Bikini Atoll, Novaya Zemlya, White Sands Missile Range, Enewetak Atoll, Pacific Proving Grounds, Semey, Pokhran, Montebello Islands, Maralinga, South Australia, Moruroa, Kharan Desert, Bikini atomic experiments, Ras Koh Hills, Kharan District, Campo de Provas Brigadeiro Velloso, Fangataufa, Reggane, Salmon Site, Emu Field, Jackass Flats, Nevada. Excerpt: Trinity was the code name of the first nuclear weapons test of an atomic bomb. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the new White Sands Proving Ground, which incorporated the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range. (The site is now the White Sands Missile Range.) The date of the test is usually considered to be the beginning of the Atomic Age. Trinity was a test of an implosion-design plutonium device. The weapon's informal nickname was "The Gadget." Using the same conceptual design, the Fat Man device was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The Trinity detonation produced an explosive power equivalent to the explosion of about 20 kilotons of TNT. The creation of atomic weapons arose out of political and scientific developments of the late 1930s. The rise of fascist governments in Europe, new discoveries about the nature of atoms and the fear that Nazi Germany was working on developing atomic bombs converged in the plans of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to develop powerful weapons using nuclear fission as their primary source of energy. The Manhattan Project, as the American nuclear physics effort was called, culminated in the test of a nuclear weapon at what is now called the Trinity Site on July 1...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781156550670
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 174
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 113 gr
  • ISBN-10: 115655067X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Malden Island, Johnston Atoll, Kiritimati, Trinity, Nevada National Security Site, Lop Lake, Amchitka, Yucca Flat
  • Width: 189 mm


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