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The first nuclear weapon (known as the trinity test) was detonated at this very spot in 1945. It was 18 kilotons and is about 200 miles south of Los Alamos in New Mexico. The building in the picture was an enclosure built to protect that last remnants of the green glass produced by the explosion.