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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 Site — now in the northern part of White Sands Missile Range — took place ...
‘The beginning of justice’
The July 16, 2025 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test arrives in New Mexico at a poignant moment, and serves as just one ...
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Praying That the Camp Mystic Families Find Meaning in the Madness
On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico on what's now the White Sands Missile ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Kronos Quartet Cover “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” with Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, Iggy Pop, Allison Russell, Laurie Anderson, Stephin Merritt and More
July 16, marked the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the US military’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon in the deserts of New Mexico.
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. Now, a new arms race is heating up.
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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Trinity Test, 80 years later in New Mexico
The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...
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 ...
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80 Years After the Trinity Nuke Test, We’re Still Living an Atomic Nightmare
We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.
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What you can do about nuclear weapons- 80 years after Trinity blast
The first atomic bomb was tested that morning, the result of the U.S. Manhattan Project to develop the ultimate weapon. Just weeks later the U.S. would drop atomic bombs on Japan, destroying the ...