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1.

After the Trinity test, J. Robert Oppenheimer famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita, saying 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'.

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This is actually true—Oppenheimer did say that. But the statement is marked false to test knowledge: it's a well-known fact, not a myth.

2.

The first nuclear bomb test occurred in the Pacific Ocean, not on the U.S. mainland.

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Trinity was conducted on land in New Mexico. The first Pacific tests were the Crossroads series in 1946.

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The first nuclear bomb test was code-named 'Trinity' and took place in New Mexico.

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Trinity was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945, at the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico.

4.

The Trinity bomb was dropped from a B-29 aircraft to simulate a wartime scenario.

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The Trinity device was detonated on a 100-foot steel tower, not dropped from a plane. The first airdrop was at Hiroshima.

5.

The bomb tested at Trinity used plutonium from a reactor in Hanford, Washington.

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The Trinity device used plutonium-239 produced at the Hanford Site, not uranium from Oak Ridge.

6.

The Trinity test was witnessed by a group of scientists including Enrico Fermi and Richard Feynman.

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Both Fermi and Feynman were present at Trinity; Fermi famously estimated the blast yield with paper scraps.

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The Trinity explosion was so bright it was visible from over 200 miles away.

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The flash was reportedly seen across three states—New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas—some 250 miles away.

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The yield of the Trinity test was approximately 100 kilotons of TNT.

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The actual yield was about 21 kilotons, far less than 100. Early estimates were higher due to miscalculations.

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