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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.

A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent Robert Oppenheimer and his brother Frank on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.

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The first UN General Assembly's first resolution set up a commission to bring back proposals to eliminate atomic weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction and to control atomic energy. That was seventy-seven years ago.