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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 ...
‘Catching it on our tongues’: How 12 girls became the first atomic bomb victims
July 16 is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in 1945, 12 young girls ...
Book Review: ‘The Hiroshima Men' is a reminder of the horrific human costs of atomic attack
John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan with in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged U.S. government's version of its atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, showing the ...
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 ...
Hiroshima reveals vault containing unclaimed ashes of A-bomb victims for 1st time in decade
The Hiroshima Municipal Government on July 16 opened to the media the vault at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound containing the ...
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Legislation introduced to expand benefits for atomic veterans on 80th anniversary of first bomb test
As the world marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated in the New Mexican desert, a Nevada congresswoman ...
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 ...
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The atomic nightmare turns 80: How Catholics reacted to the arrival of nuclear bombs
July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...
80 years since the first atomic bomb detonation in New Mexico
Japanese warship used in WWII found on Pacific seafloor: See photos Epstein dumpster fire has MAGA ‘eating its own’: Trump ...
Los Alamos and the controversial legacy of the atomic bomb
Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...
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Trinity, First Atomic Bomb — This Happened: July 16
The first atomic bomb explosion, code-named “Trinity,” occurred on this day in 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in 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.