In the early morning hours of July 16, 1945, a 3 year effort culminated in the first artificial nuclear detonation in human history.
Informally referred to as "The Gadget", the weapon was a complicated implosion-type design powered by a plutonium-239 core. Many details of this early design of the bomb were declassified during the trials of Soviet spies within the Manhattan Project.
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