Jean Tatlock
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What happened with Jean Tatlock on 16 July, 1945

16 July, 1945

The Trinity test, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, took place at the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico. It is widely believed that Oppenheimer named the test 'Trinity' as a reference to a poem by John Donne that Jean Tatlock had introduced him to, as a tribute to her.
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