The Manhattan Project Ends with Trinity Test Atomic Detonation (1945) | Milestones | Jul 16, 1945
The Manhattan Project concluded on July 16, 1945, with the Trinity Test, the first successful detonation of an atomic device. Theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer dubbed the test “Trinity,” inspired loosely by a sonnet by John Donne, “Batter my heart, three person’d God…” The Trinity Test took place on the plains of the Alamogordo Bombing ….
