80th anniversary of the world’s 1st nuclear blast: Trinity test

A single blast on a Japanese city in August of 1945, killing an estimated 70,000-140,000 people, heralded the start of the atomic age.

The American bombing of Hiroshima wouldn’t have been possible without the Trinity Test, the first ever nuclear detonation.

That test happened 80 years ago Wednesday.

“The introduction of nuclear weapons ramped up the terror,” says history expert Alexander Lanoszka of the University of Waterloo.

Global’s Nathaniel Dove reports.

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