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Where did the Trinity test take place and when was it conducted?
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A test of a U.S. thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb) at Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands, November 1, 1952.
The Trinity test, which marked the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb, took place on July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 am.12
The test was conducted at the Alamogordo Bombing Rangeānow part of the White Sands Missile Rangeālocated 120 miles (193 km) south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The device, a plutonium implosion weapon nicknamed "Gadget," was detonated atop a 100-foot steel tower at a location designated as "Ground Zero".12