Today is the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear bomb test
Splitting the atom was one of the most catastrophic events in human history, and in scientific history. It should never have happened, rationalize it though many people do. Today is the 75th anniversary of what is called the Trinity Test, the first detonation of a nuclear device. The splitting of the atom came years earlier; this was an actual bomb. Bulletin of Atomic Scientists — a publication for which I have great respect — has done a commemoration of the anniversary.
For those interested in the astrology of atomic issues, here is my most recent, thorough article, called Notes from Downwind (we are all downwind).
From today’s Bulletin:
On July 16, 1945 the first nuclear bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Trinity test marked the culmination of nearly four years of secret research led by an unprecedented collaboration of the world’s top scientists and the US military. It also guaranteed that the uranium gun-type weapon dropped on Hiroshima could be followed by another that used the plutonium implosion design tested at the Trinity Site. In essence, Trinity was a test-of-concept for the bomb that leveled Nagasaki.
The history of the Manhattan Project and the birth of the bomb have been examined and reexamined countless times over the past seven decades—as have the threats they posed to humanity.Though nearly all now are dead, many scientists, soldiers, and family members who attended the birth of the bomb documented their first-hand experiences in the pages of the Bulletin in a way that lives on, providing an exceptional and vivid glimpse of their struggles to achieve victory in war and science.
Read together, the eyewitness excerpts below offer a new retelling of the Trinity test, woven entirely from words that more than a dozen of the project’s protagonists first published in the Bulletin.
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