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Happy Birthday Nuclear Weapons!

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by rimrocker, Jul 16, 2025.

  1. rimrocker

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    On this date in 1945, the test at the Trinity site took place.

    After the next two were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 2,475 nuclear weapons were tested around the globe.

    Here's original footage from the Trinity site:

     
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    I don't know about anyone else - but I feel safer.
     
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    great article in the Washington Post yesterday

    link will work for everyone

    ‘Catching it on our tongues’: How 12 girls became the first atomic bomb victims
    The Trinity nuclear test was not conducted on barren, uninhabited land.

    https://wapo.st/4lHGRQU
     
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