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  1. 21 hours ago · The test was of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, nicknamed the "gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. Concerns about whether the complex Fat Man design would work led to a decision to conduct the first nuclear test .

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      The McDonald Ranch House in the Oscura Mountains of Socorro...

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      The test failed to declassify the site (erase evidence) as...

  2. May 26, 2024 · The Republican-controlled U.S. House has just a few days to vote on a bipartisan Senate bill that would expand compensation for victims of the Trinity Test — the world's first atomic explosion.

  3. 1 day ago · This July 16, 1945, file photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and top prosecutors from ...

  4. 3 days ago · This July 16, 1945, file photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M. Those affected by the nuclear testing at the Trinity Test Site are ...

  5. May 29, 2024 · Oppenheimer's nuclear fallout: How his atomic legacy destroyed the world of downwind communities. In 1990, the U.S. government passed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) acknowledging ...

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  6. 4 days ago · Barring last-minute action by Congress, a program that for more than 30 years has paid survivors of Cold War-era U.S nuclear weapons testing for radiation-related illnesses, which advocates had hoped to expand, will lapse soon. Lawmakers arrived at the Capitol early Monday evening and are set to leave by Wednesday afternoon in an even shorter ...

  7. 4 days ago · Hanford produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the US nuclear weapons stockpile, including materials for the Trinity Test and atomic bombs used to help end World War II. Cleanup of the Hanford site is managed by two DOE offices, the Richland Operations Office and the Office of River Protection.