Sentences with phrase «first nuclear device»

It bears a brass plaque that simply reads, «Trinity Site — Where the world's first nuclear device was exploded on July 16, 1945.»

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Romeo was the first device to be tested on a barge over open water instead of on a reef, as the US was quickly running out of islands upon which it could test nuclear weapons.

As proof of concept, the researchers estimated the yield of the 1945 Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico — the world's first detonation of a nuclear device.

And it should also come as surprise when the device eventually, and inevitably, becomes self aware and initiates a nuclear strike at the first attempt to disconnect it, triggering Judgement Day.