The Trinity Project was a project carried out to test the effects of a nuclear weapon. The Trinity nuclear device was detonated on a 100-foot tower at the Alamogordo Missile Range in south-central New Mexico at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. (Rohrer, 1995-2003). This project was organized by the Manhattan Engineer District (MED). This organization worked diligently to plan and coordinate all logistics for the inaugural event. From 1945 to 1946, more than 1,000 people worked or visited the test site. The United States was trying to achieve nuclear proliferation around the world, so this project was necessary for our enemies to see the devastation of a nuclear explosion. One of the driving forces behind the Trinity Project was a briefing that President Harry Truman received from one of its members. his contemporaries, a wise man named Jeff Byrnes, originally from South Carolina, who had a tremendous flair for politics. Rumor has it that Byrnes was not unhappy about not being chosen as Franklin D. Roosevelt's running mate in the 1944 presidential election. The fact that Byrnes had great influence in politics; he informed President Truman of the number of casualties the United States could suffer if it invaded Japan. Byrnes and the chairman of the interim committee, Henry Stimson, prevented the sharing of information on atomic research with the Russians, or even with the British. That said, politics still has a role to play; the Truman administration was thinking about its image, and if word got out that there was any reluctance to use the atomic bomb and that many American lives were being lost, it would have seemed disastrous for the administration. This committee could be similar to what we would call a working committee. group...... middle of paper...... the gasaki were wiped out. At the start of this event, everyone involved in the project really didn't take in the images, the deaths, and the overall devastation. to which the Trinity project would have led. Reports from those involved indicate that they suffered great remorse. Works Cited C.SC, WD (2011). Truman's Most Controversial Decision, the Atom Bomb and the Defeat of Japan. University of Notre Dame: Cambridge University Press. http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Trinity.html. (2003). Retrieved from http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Trinity.html Rohrer, C. M. (1995-2003). Trinity Atomic Website. Retrieved from Trininty Atomic website: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/trinity/projtrinity.htmlWalker, G. (1995-2205). http://www.abomb1.org/. From the Trinity Atomic Website: http://www.abomb1.org/