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Watch the first nuclear explosion unfold - then came the realization

Watch how the first atomic bomb test unfolded, as scientists pushed the limits of physics in a race to end the war. Behind ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Operation Mixed Company simulated a nuclear explosion with a million pounds of TNT

On Nov. 13, 1972, Terry Christensen was working in his office at Dixon Inc. on Orchard Mesa when he, like others, “felt the tremor.” He added. “We went out and saw the smoke. We saw a mushroom cloud, ...
AOL

Atom bomb survivor hopes Japan debut of 'Oppenheimer' will stoke nuclear debate

HIROSHIMA (Reuters) - Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion ...
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6 nuclear weapons have been missing for decades. The US military won’t search for them anymore

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. military has suffered dozens of “Broken Arrow” nuclear weapons accidents—events involving lost weapons, accidental releases, or other serious mishaps. -Most were ...
Albuquerque Journal

Fascinating and multifaceted: 'Nuclear Family' tells the story of nuclear weapons and Los Alamos as told through one family

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...
The New York Times

The Forgotten Nuclear Weapon Tests That Trump May Seek to Revive

Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United States to resume its testing of nuclear bombs. By William J. Broad President ...