= Trinity
{c}
{disambiguate=nuclear test}
{tag=Nuclear weapon test}
{title2=1945-07-16}
{title2=first nuclear weapon detonated}
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<Plutonium>-based.
Its plutonium was produced at <Hanford site>.
\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/TrinityDetonation1945GIF.gif]
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN5q8i-kQj0]
{title=Trinity Test Preparations by AtomicHeritage (2016)}
{description=Appears to be a compilation of several videos, presumably each with their own separate <LA-UR>, though these are not noted. Credited: "Video courtesy of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Archives", TODO how to search that archive online?}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QxsehUI0rY]
{title=<Trinity (nuclear test)>[Trinity]: Getting The Job Done}
{description=
Good video, clarifies several interesting technical points:
* <Gun-type fission weapon> were much easier to build as you don't need super synchronized charges as in <implosion-type fission weapon>. But they are less efficient.
* <Plutonium> make much more efficient usage of <uranium>, because you don't need to highly enrich a bunch of <Uranium-235> in the first place, but rather just use way less enriched <Uranium-235> to produce a bunch of <Plutonium> by converting <Uranium-238>
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