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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.
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.
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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 ...
'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 Site 80th Anniversary Commemoration: The test that forever changed the world
White Sands Missile Range will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Trinity Site test, marking a new era in scientific ...
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 impossible to keep secret.