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What happened when the Trinity test bomb detonated, from the creation of green glass to fallout that drifted over 1,000 miles
The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were ...
80 years later, victims of ‘first atom bomb’ will soon be eligible for reparations
More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons ...
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First atomic bomb test conducted in N.M. 80 years ago today still affects site
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...
'We didn't know what it was': Reflections pour in on 80th anniversary of Trinity Test blast
Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico Catholic bishops, stood poised to venture into the White Sands Missile Range with plans to pray for peace and the ...
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Trinity Test Fallout Victims in New Mexico Finally Get Compensation After 80 Years
Congress earlier this month finally got around to making New Mexico fallout victims of the first test of an atomic bomb and ...
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80 Years After Trinity, the Dangers of Nuclear War Have Never Been Higher
Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion.
80 Years After the Trinity Atomic Blast, New Mexico’s Downwinders May Finally See Reparations
Generations of survivors of the world’s first nuclear bomb test have been excluded from any federal compensation.
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80 years after Trinity
In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an ...
'Lord, these affairs are hard on the heart': How Manhattan Project scientists reacted to the world's first atomic bomb test
In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...
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Trinity Test, 80 years later in New Mexico
The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...
Preparations in place for 80th anniversary of Trinity Bomb testing
Decades ago, scientists in New Mexico worked tirelessly to discover and test the world’s most destructive weapon – the ...
Trinity, 80 Years Later, Still Threatens a “Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall”
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls. Now, a new arms race is heating up.