This thought - provoking opera is centered around Oppenheimer and the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert. (science.sciencemag.org)
In fact, a rehearsal for Trinity — America's first atomic bomb test detonation — was conducted on May 7, 1945, the very day that Germany surrendered. (scientificamerican.com)
The first atomic bomb was tiny by nuclear weapons standards. (businessinsider.com)