Trinity test (first atomic bomb)
1945 · Event
First detonation of a nuclear device in New Mexico.
On these timelines: Science & Technology, Master
More from Science & Technology
- Isaac Newton (1643)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- The Space Race (1957)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- First electronic computer (ENIAC) (1946)
Around 1945
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)