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The Trinity Test
The world's first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located ...
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Kronos Quartet Cover “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” with Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, Iggy Pop, Allison Russell, Laurie Anderson, Stephin Merritt and More
July 16, marked the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the US military’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon in the deserts of New Mexico.
‘People really want to put Trinity in the past:’ Q&A with professor and author Myrriah Gómez
July 16, 2025 marked 80 years since the atomic test at the Trinity site, as well as the 46th anniversary of the toxic uranium ...
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.
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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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 ...
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 ...
Truthout16hOpinion
80 Years After the Trinity Nuke Test, We’re Still Living an Atomic Nightmare
We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.
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How the First Nuclear Explosion Led to the Discovery of a Rare Form of Matter
On July 16, 1945, the United States conducted the world’s first-ever nuclear test, known as the Trinity test, in the desert ...
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What you can do about nuclear weapons- 80 years after Trinity blast
The first atomic bomb was tested that morning, the result of the U.S. Manhattan Project to develop the ultimate weapon. Just weeks later the U.S. would drop atomic bombs on Japan, destroying the ...
Source New Mexico20h
Lawmakers, NM downwinders commemorate 80th anniversary of Trinity test
Downwinders and other survivors of NM's nuclear legacy mark the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, amid RECA expansion ...
Eighty Years After the First Nuke Test, the World Is at a Dangerous Crossroads
On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of ...