Stealing Trinity

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For most, it was another day in a long war. Yet as a precursor to human tragedy, July 16, 1945, was a day without parallel.

The leading event came shortly before dawn, in the sparse desert of central New Mexico. In an instant that would irretrievably change the course of the world, a brilliant, searing explosion tore through the sky, turning night into day, sand into glass, and skeptics into believers. It was the worlds first atomic blast, code named Trinity.

On that very same morning, two ships slipped from port and headed into the vast Pacific Ocean. To the east, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis steamed under San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, her task to deliver vital components of another atomic weapon — code named Little Boy — to the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific. To the west, a Japanese Imperial Navy submarine, designated I-58, also set sail. Her mission, ostensibly, was that of routine patrol, if there could be such a thing in time of war.

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