The world's first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located at:
Answer: New Mexico
Explanation
The world's first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945
It was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico,
The code name for the test was "Trinity."
The test was of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, nicknamed the "gadget"
The same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945
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