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Trinity test

The explosive musical score to Oppenheimer

By Reba A. Wissner | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

The Bulletin reviews ‘Oppenheimer’

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Weapons

A timeline of Oppenheimer and his legacy

By Dan Drollette Jr | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Presentation

Playing downwind of the Trinity test site on the day of the explosion, July 16, 1945

Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test

By Lesley M. M. Blume | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Gadget is readied for the Trinity test.

A foul and awesome display

By Kenneth T. Bainbridge | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

Red trinitite: L. Bindi and P.J. Steinhardt. Used with permission.

What are atomic bomb quasicrystals, and why do they matter?

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Author Jan Eliasberg

Jan Eliasberg: Fiction as a window into the ethics of testing the Bomb

By | Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

In their own words: Trinity at 75

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Weapons

‘Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb’ by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

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US trident missile test

The six best nuclear risk stories of 2019

By | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project”

By Kathleen M. Tucker, Robert Alvarez | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Can nuclear weapons fallout mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch?

By C. N. Waters, James Syvitski, A. Gałuszka, G. J. Hancock, J. Zalasiewicz, A. Cearreta, J. Grinevald, C. Jeandel, J. R. McNeill, C. Summerhayes, A. Barnosky | Uncategorized