Trinity at 81: How the first atomic test ushered in the nuclear age

In 1945, the Trinity test signified the beginning of the nuclear age and marked the successful output of the Manhattan ...
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81 years ago today, a 21-kiloton test in the New Mexico desert gave humanity the power to destroy itself — and in the eight decades since, no two nuclear-armed po…

On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project ...
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80 years after the Trinity nuclear test, scientists identify new molecule-trapping crystal formed in the blast

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when conditions return to normal. The Trinity nuclear test in 1945 left behind such ...
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Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests

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Idaho downwinders finally eligible for nuclear test compensation after decades-long fight

EMMETT, Idaho — The United States detonated its first atmospheric nuclear test in Nevada seventy-five years ago this February, setting off a chain of events that would alter countless lives across the ...