Presidential Trump Issues Statement on 75th Anniversary of Trinity Nuclear Test
July 17, 2020
July 17, 2020
WASHINGTON, July 17 -- President Trump issued the following statement on July 16 on the 75th anniversary of the Trinity nuclear test:
Seventy-five years ago today, on a rainy morning in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New Mexico, the United States ushered in the nuclear age with the detonation of the world's first nuclear explosive device--an event code-named "Trinity." This remarkable feat of engineering and scientific ingenuity was the culmination of the Manhattan Proje . . .
Seventy-five years ago today, on a rainy morning in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New Mexico, the United States ushered in the nuclear age with the detonation of the world's first nuclear explosive device--an event code-named "Trinity." This remarkable feat of engineering and scientific ingenuity was the culmination of the Manhattan Proje . . .