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Trinity Test

Trinity Site Explosion

Description: Mushroom cloud created by nuclear bomb detonation at the Trinity Site.
Date: July 16, 1945

Source: General Records of the Department of Energy, Record Group 434; National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD

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