Trinity Test Site, Loading Gadget Components, 1945

Vital Components are loaded at the old McDonald Ranch for the trip to the test site. The McDonald Ranch House, also known as Trinity Site, in the Oscura Mountains of Socorro County, New Mexico, was the location of assembly of the world's first nuclear weapon. The active components of the Trinity test gadget, a plutonium Fat Man-type bomb similar to that later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, were assembled there on July 13, 1945. The completed bomb was winched up the test tower the following day and detonated on July 16, 1945 as the Trinity nuclear test. The Manhattan Project was a research and development program by the US with the UK and Canada that produced the first atomic bomb during WWII

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