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'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 ...
Misinformation in the media the week of the Trinity Site test had deadly consequences
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 first half of the 20th century: The birth of the atomic bomb in the ...