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Trinity Nuclear Test

Scientists and military personnel at the Alamogordo Bombing Range observe the first detonation of an atomic bomb, codenamed 'Trinity,' as the countdown reaches zero. The moment is charged with anticip

Year 1945
Date 7/16
Location Alamogordo Bombing Range, New Mexico, United States
Layer 2
Visibility HIDDEN
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Key Figures

J. Robert Oppenheimer Leslie Groves Enrico Fermi Military Technician Junior Scientist
Time Travel

Causal neighbors · 219 linked moments

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Trinity Nuclear Test
1945 · contemporaneous
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Trinity Nuclear Test
1945 · contemporaneous
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Trinity Nuclear Test
1945 · contemporaneous
RDS-3 Test
RDS-3 Test
1953 · same figure
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · same era
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · precedes
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Trinity Nuclear Test
1945 · contemporaneous
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Trinity Nuclear Test
1945 · contemporaneous
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Trinity Nuclear Test
1945 · contemporaneous
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First point-contact transistor demonstration
1947 · same era
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Release of the Regency TR-1 transistor radio
1954 · same era
F
First Silicon Transistor Demonstration
1954 · same era
C
Completion of TRADIC, the First Transistor Computer
1954 · same era
F
First point-contact transistor invention
1947 · same era
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Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1955 · same era
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Publication of Claude Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'
1948 · same era
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Harvard Mark I Operational
1944 · same era
E
ENIAC First Program Run
1945 · same era
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 · same era
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
1941 · same era
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Hindenburg disaster
1937 · same era
ENIAC Dedication Ceremony
ENIAC Dedication Ceremony
1946 · same era
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Delivery of the first UNIVAC I to the United States Census Bureau
1951 · same era
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Invention of the Point-Contact Transistor
1947 · same era
I
Invention of the Junction Transistor
1948 · same era
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United Nations Charter Signing
1945 · same era
I
Invention of the point-contact transistor
1947 · same era
D
Demonstration of the first silicon transistor by Gordon Teal
1954 · same era
E
ENIAC Unveiling
1946 · same era
I
Invention of the Transistor
1947 · same era
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Regency TR-1 Transistor Radio Release
1954 · same era
C
Chicago Pile-1 Criticality
1942 · same era
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First Silicon Transistor Developed
1954 · same era
I
Invention of the transistor
1947 · same era
E
ENIAC Unveiled
1946 · same era
E
ENIAC Public Dedication
1946 · same era