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Why some Manhattan Project scientists feared the Trinity test

At 5:30 a.m. mountain war time on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon detonated over a flat, arid stretch of New Mexico desert. The Trinity test, as it was code-named, confirmed that an ...
Albuquerque Journal

First atomic bomb test site, Trinity Site, open house canceled amid government shutdown

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site is ...
Veritasium on MSN

The nuclear test that scientists feared might ignite Earth’s atmosphere

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the scientific effort that created the world’s first atomic bomb during World War II. The Trinity test in 1945 produced an explosion equal to nearly 25,000 tons of TNT, ...

New Mexico state agencies offer downwinders help applying for federal benefits

New Mexico chaptered Senate Memorial 27 on Feb. 25, directing certain state agencies to help New Mexicans exposed to ...
Albuquerque Journal

Fascinating and multifaceted: 'Nuclear Family' tells the story of nuclear weapons and Los Alamos as told through one family

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...
NBC Connecticut

Which countries have nuclear weapons and how are they tested? What to know

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...