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Nuclear breakdown: Israel accuses Iran of developing a detonator for a bomb
The scientists who became the targets of Israel's recent attack on Iran were engaged in the creation of an explosive ...
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GARVEY: Praying that the Camp Mystic families find meaning in the madness
On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico on what’s now the White Sands Missile Range. About 40 miles away from the Trinity test site, a group of girls at a ...
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We need to pray for Camp Mystic families
On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico on what’s now the White Sands Missile Range. About 40 miles away from the Trinity test site, a group of girls at a ...
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Britain’s Cold War Nuclear Chicken Run
The Cold War prompted many bizarre plans—one British idea involved using live chickens to maintain nuclear landmines.
80 years after first nuclear bomb test, New Mexico downwinders remember hearing the blast
Mary Riseley walked through glowing rows of luminarias looking for her mother's name at a vigil for New Mexico downwinders Wednesday, 80 years to the day after the first nuclear bomb test. As dark ...
Guest editorial: Risk of nuclear war waned after the Cold War. It’s back with a vengeance
When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...
Deadly Los Angeles explosion at sheriff's department training facility
Venezuelans deported by Trump to brutal El Salvador prison are transferred to Caracas in exchange for Americans Dylan Dreyer ...
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Nobel laureates, other experts sound alarm on mounting risks of nuclear war
At various points of the public event, the Nobel laureates and nuclear experts looked back at the Manhattan Project ...
'Great Enough to Blow Any City Off the Map': On Site at the First Nuclear Explosion
Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves: After arriving at the Alamogordo base camp on July 15, a brief review of the situation with Oppenheimer revealed that we might be in trouble. The bomb had been assembled and ...
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. Now, a new arms race is heating up.