July 17th marks the 76th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear explosion test of the “Gadget,” a plutonium device detonated on the desert plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto. Robert Oppenheimer dubbed the test “Trinity,” and on that day at precisely 5:30 in the early morning hours, the Gadget released 18.6 kilotons…