Operation: Trinity
Date: July 16, 1945, 5:29:45 A.M.
Location: Trinity Site Zero, Alamogordo Test Range, Jornada del Muerto desert
Detonation: 20-22 Kilotons, tower

On July 16, 1945, at a site called Trinity, a plutonium bomb was assembled and brought to the top of a tower. The bomb was detonated, producing an intense flash and a fireball that expanded to 600 meters in two seconds. The explosive power was equivalent to 18.6 kilotons of TNT. It grew to a height of more than 12 kilometers, boiling up in the shape of a mushroom. Forty seconds later, the blast of air from the bomb reached the observation bunkers, along with a long and deafening roar of sound. And so began the Atomic Age …