The Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London is holding a nuclear history conference online in July 2020. Academics, veterans of Britain’s nuclear programmes and other researchers from around the world will come together for informal discussions of nuclear history.
Alan Carr will talk about Trinity, the world’s first atomic test. The presentation will mark a significant anniversary: it will be 75 years and 90 minutes since the test, at Alamogordo in the New Mexico desert, which marked the culmination of the wartime Manhattan Project and the dawn of the nuclear age.
Alan is the historian at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and his talk will cover the planning, execution, aftermath and legacy of the test.
Photo caption: Fireball of the Trinity atomic test, 16 July 1945 (photo courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory/public domain)
