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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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On Trinity Test anniversary, downwinders advocate Tina Cordova continues fight for New Mexicans

Cordova speaks on her decades of work with the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium to fight for compensation and ...

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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The World's First Nuclear Explosion Forged an 'Impossible' Crystal

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...