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“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking,” said Albert Einstein. Learn more about nuclear weapons in the modern day here.

Newsreel narrator: president truman's dramatic announcement that russia has created an atomic explosion sends reporters racing for flushing meadow, where russia's vyshinsky arrives to address the united nations... this puts the u.s. in a really complicated position, because it's no longer the only country with nuclear weapons. suddenly, you have the possibility that if war with nuclear weapon broke out between two states that had a fair number of them, they could, in a matter of hours, destroy themselves. (civil defense siren blaring) newsreel narrator: we must all get ready now, so we know ho...

“It scared the dickens out of me,” a bus driver said in 1951.

Newsreel narrator: president truman's dramatic announcement that russia has created an atomic explosion sends reporters racing for flushing meadow, where russia's vyshinsky arrives to address the united nations... this puts the u.s. in a really complicated position, because it's no longer the only country with nuclear weapons. suddenly, you have the possibility that if war with nuclear weapon broke out between two states that had a fair number of them, they could, in a matter of hours, destroy themselves. (civil defense siren blaring) newsreel narrator: we must all get ready now, so we know ho...

The New Mexican desert where the Trinity test took place wasn't exactly uninhabited, as Sen. Ben Ray Luján pointed out.