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1 day ago · (AP) The mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site in New Mexico, July 16, 1945. Millions of Americans were exposed to radiation from government testing of nuclear bombs.
19 hours 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 ...
1 day ago · And it was in a little bitty community in New Mexico, the Trinity test site, where the U.S. government as a matter of fact lied to these families, years later and said that it was simply a munition drop. Not that it was a nuclear atmospheric test. Kids thought that it was snowing, they were playing in the ash.
4 days ago · Edward Teller ( Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb " and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design. Born in Austria-Hungary in 1908, Teller emigrated to the United States in the ...
17 hours ago · It would, in part, allow downwinders exposed to the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test to get compensated for medical expenses. “I am the fourth generation in my family to have cancer since 1945 and ...
1 day ago · Nuclear compensation bill expires today without vote. While the film Oppenheimer made no mention of the impact the Trinity test and US nuclear complex had on New Mexico, the movement to compensate so-called downwinders and uranium miners—excluded from the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act—has only grown in the last year.
4 days ago · The Hanford site, a 580-square-mile section of semi-arid desert in southeast Washington, was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project to produce plutonium for national defense. 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 ...
