Trinity: 75 Years Later
On the 75th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear weapons explosion: The Trinity test near Alamogordo in 1945, KSFR News Director Tom Trowbridge spoke with a longtime New Mexico journalist...
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75th Commemoration Events for Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium
Sun. 8/2 3 pm MDT – Veterans for Peace Virtual 2020 Convention New Mexico Plenary with Tina Cordova, TBDC, and Joni Arends, CCNS https://vfp2020.attendease.com/ Th. 8/6 6 pm MDT –...
Trinity’s Atomic Blast Changed the World
As the first atomic blast lit up the morning sky and scorched a vast desert landscape in south-central New Mexico, the scientists and engineers who had worked on this top-secret...
Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project”
“New Mexico residents were neither warned before the 1945 Trinity blast, informed of health hazards afterward, nor evacuated before, during, or after the test. Exposure rates in public areas from...
In their own words: Trinity at 75
On July 16, 1945 the first nuclear bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Trinity test marked the culmination of nearly four years of secret research led by an unprecedented...
Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium – 75th Commemoration Events for Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Th. 7/16 9 am MDT – Trinity Downwinders: 75 Years and Still Waiting, zoom event of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium https://www.trinitydownwinders.com/ Th. 7/16 11 am MDT – Global Online...
REMEMBERING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRINITY TEST
Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) Thursday, July 16, 2020 Virtual Event at 9:00 a.m. MDT Access at www.trinitydownwinders.com Trinity Downwinders are commemorating the 75th Anniversary since the first nuclear test was conducted...
Trinity Downwinders: 75 Years and Waiting
Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) REMEMBERING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRINITY TEST *** I M M E D I A T E P R E S S R E L...
Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project”
“New Mexico residents were neither warned before the 1945 Trinity blast, informed of health hazards afterward, nor evacuated before, during, or after the test. Exposure rates in public areas from...
Trinity Test Anniversary
July 16th 2019 is the 74th anniversary of the first above ground nuclear bomb test on a U S civilian population. It was done near Tularosa New Mexico. The people...
Trinity site cancer study expected to finish in 2019
By Russell Contreras | Associated Press Aug 6, 2018 Updated Aug 7, 2018 ALBUQUERQUE — A long-anticipated study into the cancer risks of New Mexico residents living near the site...
70th Anniversary of the Trinity Test
The first atomic detonation. Oppenheimer recalls his impressions of the moment for an interview on NBC in 1965. The first nuclear weapon test was carried out by the United States...
Trinity Day — a good day to get money from the Fed?
Please check out Stephanie’s blog Particle Beams “Luminous Quanta of Divine Intelligence…” dispelling the nuclear delusion Trinity Day — a good day to get money from the Fed? Batter my...
First We Bombed New Mexico Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Thursday, May 1 • 6 – 8pm – Nick Salazar Center for the Arts
Join us for the acclaimed film, First We Bombed New Mexico, the hidden history of Trinity—the world’s first nuclear detonation—carried out in New Mexico just one month prior to the...
the bomb Exhibit and Symposium: April 30 – May 30, 2025 at The University of New Mexico
the bomb is a groundbreaking multimedia installation that immerses audiences in the strange, compelling, and unsettling reality of nuclear weapons. Almost eight decades have passed since a city was destroyed by...
Calls to restart nuclear weapons tests stir dismay and debate among scientists
By Emily Conover, Science News | March 27, 2025 sciencenews.org When the countdown hit zero on September 23, 1992, the desert surface puffed up into the air, as if a giant...
Remember the Downwinders
Today, Jan. 27 is a National Day of Remembrance for Downwinders. Nuclear testing by the U.S. government started in New Mexico with the Trinity Test in July 1945, and the...
Families living in shadow of Cold War facility blame government for their cancer, death
“Do you believe the Department of Energy; our own government is telling the truth?” asked Duane Pohlman. “Nobody believes that. If you do, you’re a fool,” said Guy Reynolds.” PIKETON,...
OPINION: Nevada has already passed the test
“A return to explosive nuclear testing in the United States would almost certainly trigger a return to explosive nuclear testing in Russia, China and probably other nuclear-armed states. …America’s nuclear veterans...
Plutonium Found in Los Alamos at Levels Comparable to Chernobyl Spark Public Outrage
Extreme contamination in Acid Canyon raises concerns over public safety and environmental health. By Tibi Puiu, ZME Science | September 20, 2024 zmescience.com A new study has revealed alarming levels of...
New Mexico forum highlights Catholic views on nuclear disarmament, deterrence
Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe participated in the forum and said efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons can progress when “reasonable and good-willed people enter into a critical conversation.” These...
In Pursuit of Justice for All Those Who Were Damaged: Saturday, October 26th 4:00 to 8:00 pm in Albuquerque
SEEKING JUSTICE FOR THE UNKNOWING, UNWILLING, AND UNCOMPENSATED INNOCENT VICTIMS OF THE JULY 16, 1945 TRINITY TEST IN SOUWESTERN NEW MEXICO SAVE THE DATE: The TBDC in conjunction with SWOP (Southwest Organizing...
Scientist says there’s legacy plutonium contamination in Los Alamos
‘Extreme plutonium contamination scenario’ identified in research from , soil, water and plant samples taken in Acid Canyon arroyos BY DANIELLE PROKOP, SOURCE NM | August 16, 2024 sourcenm.com Los Alamos,...
A nuclear legacy in Los Alamos
After three cleanups, independent analysis shows 80-year-old plutonium persists in Acid Canyon and beyond By Alicia Inez Guzmán, Searchlight New Mexico | August 15, 2024 searchlightnm.org The world’s oldest documented plutonium...
High Detections of Plutonium in Los Alamos Neighborhood – As We Enter a New Nuclear Arms Race the Last One is Still Not Cleaned Up
In April Nuclear Watch New Mexico released a map of plutonium contamination based on Lab data. Today, Dr. Michael Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University, is...