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Five, four, three, 2, 1.

At 5.29

at 529 a.m. on July 16, 1945. The first nuclear test, a test cod named Trinity, was carried

out in a remote stretch of New Mexico Desert. An area called Jornado del Muerto, or the desert.

An area called Jornado del Muerto, or the journey of the dead man.

The heat from the blast melted the desert sand,

creating a new material that became known as Trinitite.

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