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The nuclear test that scientists feared might ignite Earth’s atmosphere

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the scientific effort that created the world’s first atomic bomb during World War II. The Trinity test in 1945 produced an explosion equal to nearly 25,000 tons of TNT, ...

Chilling doomsday nuclear map reveals how fast US citizens would die from explosion

Top university scientists created a map simulation of who across North America would be impacted by nuclear fallout in the event of a nuclear explosion ...
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Joint Base Charleston to be home to new, state-of-the-art nuclear simulator

NORTH CHARLESTON — It's the nightmare no one in the military wants to imagine: a crisis aboard a nuclear-powered submarine or vessel. If that does ever happen, it’s likely that the military men and ...
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Nuclear shadows: The explosion that started it all

In the pre-dawn dark of July 16, 1945, a searing flash lit up the New Mexico desert. A shockwave followed, rippling outward across the silent plains. This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear ...