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Trinity Nuclear Test

Scientists and military personnel observe the first detonation of an atomic bomb at dawn in the desert, marking a pivotal moment in human history.

Year 1945
Date 7/16
Location Trinity Site, New Mexico, United States
Layer 2
Visibility HIDDEN
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Key Figures

J. Robert Oppenheimer Leslie Groves Enrico Fermi Military Technician Physicist

Causal neighbors · 196 linked moments

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1945 · contemporaneous
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Trinity Nuclear Test
1945 · same figure
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ENIAC Public Unveiling
1946 · same era
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ENIAC Public Unveiling
1946 · follows
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Chicago Pile-1 Criticality
1942 · same era
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Chicago Pile-1 Criticality
1942 · precedes
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Chicago Pile-1 Criticality
1942 · same figure
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First Silicon Transistor Developed
1954 · same era
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First Silicon Transistor Developed
1954 · follows
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 · same era
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 · precedes
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Chicago Pile-1 first criticality
1942 · same era
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Chicago Pile-1 first criticality
1942 · precedes
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Chicago Pile-1 first criticality
1942 · same figure
Invention of the Transistor
Invention of the Transistor
1947 · same era
Invention of the Transistor
Invention of the Transistor
1947 · follows
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · same era
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Trinity Nuclear Test
1945 · contemporaneous
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First Silicon Transistor Demonstration
1954 · same era
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Completion of TRADIC, the First Transistor Computer
1954 · 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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ENIAC Unveiled
1946 · same era
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Invention of the Transistor
1947 · same era
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Harvard Mark I Operational
1944 · same era
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ENIAC First Program Run
1945 · 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
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Dedication of the ENIAC
1946 · same era
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Invention of the Junction Transistor
1948 · same era
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Publication of Alonzo Church's 'An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory'
1936 · same era
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Alan Turing Arrives at Princeton University to Study Under Alonzo Church
1936 · same era
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United Nations Charter Signing
1945 · same era
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ENIAC Unveiling
1946 · same era
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Invention of the Transistor
1947 · same era
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Regency TR-1 Transistor Radio Release
1954 · same era