Trinity test (first atomic bomb)
1945 · Event
First detonation of a nuclear device in New Mexico.
On these timelines: The Manhattan Project, Science & Technology, Master
More from The Manhattan Project
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Einstein-Szilard letter (1939)
- Roosevelt authorises the atomic bomb (1942)
- Los Alamos Laboratory established (1943)
- The Interim Committee recommends use (1945)
- Truman is told about the bomb (1945)
- The MAUD Report says the bomb is feasible (1941)
- Truman tells Stalin of a 'new weapon' (1945)
Around 1945
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)