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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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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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World marks 80th anniversary of Trinity Test in NM
The 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity ...
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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 ...
‘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 ...
'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 ...
What happened when the Trinity test bomb detonated, from the creation of green glass to fallout that drifted over 1,000 miles
The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.
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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New Mexico gains nuclear reparations from Trinity Test
The group and its founder and leader Tina Cordova have fought for decades to be included in the Radiation Exposure ...
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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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.