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It’ll Be Fixed!

Edward Carver Common Dreams
Trump Tells Supporters No Need to Vote in the Future

The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945

William Burr National Security Archive
Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was Trinity, the first, test-run atomic explosion in the New Mexican desert. The fallout is still with us, literally and figuratively, 79 years later. This is the story of Trinity, based on declassified documents.