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Title: Remastered footage of the first ever atomic bomb
Post by: mystery-ak on March 13, 2019, 03:11:37 pm
Remastered footage of the first ever atomic bomb: US military's Manhattan Project ushered in the nuclear age with the 'Trinity' test explosion in 1945

    The 'Trinity' test took place on 5:29am July 16, 1945 and was equivalent to 18.6 kilotons of TNT (78 TJ)
    Footage released by YouTube site AtomCentral has remastered the footage to make it clearer
    It was the same type of plutonium nuclear bomb which was dropped later that year on the city of Nagasaki
    Onlookers included notable scientists Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman and Robert Oppenheimer

By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline

Published: 06:16 EDT, 13 March 2019 | Updated: 11:03 EDT, 13 March 2019

Incredible remastered footage has been released showing the moment the world's first ever nuclear bomb was detonated.

The 'Trinity' test on 5:29am MT (11:29am GMT) July 16, 1945 was the culmination of years of work by the famed Manhattan Project and ushered into existence the nuclear era when the plutonium bomb, dubbed 'Gadget', exploded in the Jornada del Muerto desert.

Footage released by YouTube site AtomCentral shows it in unprecedented clarity after the removal of dirt and scratches minimised defects in the processing of the original negative.

The explosion was equivalent to 18.6 kilotons of TNT (78 TJ) and was the predecessor to the Fat Man bomb dropped over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945 - killing more than 40,000 people. 

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6803087/First-nuclear-bomb-detonation-captures-moment-ushered-nuclear-age.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6803087/First-nuclear-bomb-detonation-captures-moment-ushered-nuclear-age.html)