Trinity at 81: How the first atomic test ushered in the nuclear age

In 1945, the Trinity test signified the beginning of the nuclear age and marked the successful output of the Manhattan ...
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81 years ago today, a 21-kiloton test in the New Mexico desert gave humanity the power to destroy itself — and in the eight decades since, no two nuclear-armed po…

On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project ...
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Trinity Site 80th Anniversary Commemoration: Building the Test Site

This article is part of a series that will delve into the history of the Trinity Site Test, which marked its 80th anniversary on July 16, 2025, and the commemoration of the growth and evolution of ...
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First atomic bomb test conducted in N.M. 80 years ago today still affects site

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. On ...
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Misinformation in the media the week of the Trinity Site test had deadly consequences

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 16, 1945, and in the days and weeks that followed, newspapers in America missed what may well have been the scoop of the ...