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Los Alamos Historical Society Hosts Trinity Site Guided Tour Los Alamos Historical Society News: “…magnificent, beautiful, stupendous, and terrifying. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. … light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun.”—Brig. Gen. Thomas Farrell, describing the Trinity Test of July 16, 1945.  In the northern reaches of the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range and 220 miles south of Los Alamos, the first-ever atomic d...

Tularosa Basin Downwinders continue their fight for recognition Shattered remains — Beyond Nuclear International The fight to right the injustices of Trinity  https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/72759838/posts/3391600721 By Tina Cordova, 14 June 21, In a world searching for sustainable energy infrastructures, the US has still not rectified the injustices that came about with the earliest moments of the nuclear era. On July 16, 1945, when the US government detonated the first atomic bomb at...

To determine the most popular national parks in the United States, Stacker compiled data  on the number of recreational visits in 2020.

Published 27 May 2021 A newly discovered quasicrystal that was created by the first nuclear explosion at Trinity Site, N.M., on July 16, 1945, could someday help scientists better understand illicit nuclear explosions and curb nuclear proliferation. The newly discovered material was formed accidentally in the blast of the first atomic bomb test, which resulted in the fusion of surrounding sand, the test tower, and copper transmission lines into a glassy material known as trinitite. A newly dis...

The B-29s were powerful powers that could drop a lot of weapons onto targets below. Here is how they destroyed many homes and factories, in a long and punishing campaign.

Science-Defying Crystal Discovered at the Site of the First Nuclear Bomb Test – Photo Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202105201082949873-science-defying-crystal-discovered-at-the-site-of-the-first-nuclear-bomb-test--photo/ On 26 July 1945, the world was ushered into the so-called Atomic Age after the US detonated the first nuclear bomb nicknamed "Gadget". The explosion was so powerful that it resulted in the fusion of sand and metal, leading to the creation of a glassy m...

The world had never seen so much destructive power. And 75 years later, we’re still finding surprises amid the debris of that first nuclear blast, the Trinity test.

The 50 Most Popular National Parks in America By Hannah Lang, Stacker News On 5/15/21 at 8:00 AM EDT Lucky-photographer / Shutterstock Approximately 237 million people visited American national parks in 2020, representing a 28 percent year-over-year decrease attributed to the coronavirus pandemic. To determine the most popular national parks in the United States, Stacker compiled data from the National Park Service on the number of recreational visits each site had in 2020. President Woodrow...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... For Santa Fe tour operator Monique Schoustra, the past year was “the offseason that just kept going and going and going.” The final credit card transaction she ran in 2020 for Great Southwest Adventures, the business she co-founded in 1998, was on March 10 — the day before New Mexico announced ...

American honey is radioactive from nuclear bomb test in the 1950s, researchers say Published  What is the Doomsday Clock? The decision to move the hands of the clock is made by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board in correspondence with the Bulletin’s board of sponsors, which consist of 13 Nobel Laureates.  LOS ANGELES - Scientists are finding traces of radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing during the 1950s and 1960s in honey produced in the United Stat...