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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.
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80 Years After Trinity, the Dangers of Nuclear War Have Never Been Higher
Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion.
Column: 80 years since ‘Trinity,’ nuclear threat still looms large
We must rid ourselves of nuclear weapons or lose life as we know it on this planet, the Hampton Roads Campaign to Abolish ...
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World marks 80th anniversary of Trinity Test in New Mexico
The 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity ...
'Growing, diversifying and modernizing': 80 year after Trinity blast, nuclear weapons remain a threat
It’s a peaceful time of day at 5:29 a.m. Quiet. In that predawn moment 80 years ago, Allen Sánchez said, his grandfather was milking cows in Tomé. A light appeared as the first test of a nuclear ...
'Heed our warnings': Nobel laureates plea for diplomacy to prevent nuclear war
Top nuclear experts gathered in Chicago to offer world leaders a playbook for reducing the risk of nuclear war.
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80 Years After Trinity, Nuclear Threat Still Looms Over Taiwan, World
Eighty years after the Trinity nuclear test, Taiwan and the world remain under the threat of nuclear conflict, as global ...
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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 ...
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‘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 attending a summer camp in Ruidoso, New Mexico, were jolted out of their bunks ...
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Nobel Laureates, experts gather at University of Chicago, call for action to avert nuclear war
Experts warned at a panel discussion Wednesday that the threat of nuclear war is increasing — but unlike in years past, many ...
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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 ...
What you can do about nuclear weapons- 80 years after Trinity Blast | Opinion
The first atomic bomb was tested that morning, the result of the U.S. Manhattan Project to develop the ultimate weapon. Just ...