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Nagasaki cathedral blesses bell that replaces one destroyed by U.S. atomic bomb in 1945
A Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the ...
The Beginning of the Nuclear Bomb: An Oral History
You know the story from the 2023 blockbuster, Oppenheimer, which dramatized J. Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, in his troubled quest to reach the dawn of the nuclear age.
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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.
‘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 ...
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Book Review: ‘The Hiroshima Men’ is a reminder of the horrific human costs of atomic attack
Author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles a diverse range of players in his latest book about the first atomic bomb used in warfare. MacGregor uses visually enticing description and lively ...
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.
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 ...
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The Nobel Laureate Assembly Declaration for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Tremendous progress has been made in reducing global nuclear stockpiles and nuclear risks, but we are now heading in the ...
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 ...