Today is the 74th anniversary of the first atomic bomb detonation, "Trinity." Here's my New Yorker piece on the test from a few years back.https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-first-light-of-the-trinity-atomic-test …
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The Army deliberately did not pursue the question of fallout exposure from the test too diligently, because they feared lawsuits.pic.twitter.com/RBkcxhbmm7
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All of the above come from the CDC's Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment Report, vol. 5 (2007), appendix N. https://wwwn.cdc.gov/LAHDRA/
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My favorite quote on Trinity remains test director Kenneth Bainbridge's: "Now we are all sons of bitches."http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2015/07/17/now-we-are-all-sons-of-bitches/ …
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