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Oppenheimer Video Highlights Groundbreaking Trinity Test

Ahead of its highly-anticipated theatrical release on July 21, a brand new Oppenheimer video for Christopher Nolan’s historical drama has been revealed. The video details the consequences of the world ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test

On Sunday, July 15, 1945, at around 11 pm Mountain War Time, New York Times reporter and in-house Manhattan Project historian (or propagandist, some would say) William L. Laurence joined the project’s ...
USA Today

80 years later, victims of ‘first atom bomb’ will soon be eligible for reparations

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...
The New York Times

Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study Finds

The research shows that the first atomic bomb explosion’s effects had been underestimated, and could help more “downwinders” press for federal compensation. Credit...U.S. Department of Defense ...