Trinity Test Fallout Victims in New Mexico Finally Get Compensation After 80 Years
Congress earlier this month finally got around to making New Mexico fallout victims of the first test of an atomic bomb and the miners who dug up the uranium to fuel the weapon eligible for compensation — nearly 80 years after the fearsome 22-kiloton blast code-named Trinity sent up a churning mushroom cloud over the […]
Army Cancels Planned Public Visits to Trinity Bomb Site in April. You Can Blame 'Oppenheimer.'
The Army has canceled the April 6 open house for the public to visit the New Mexico site of the Trinity atomic bomb blast for lack of funds following a crowd surge last October brought on by the blockbuster movie “Oppenheimer.” In a January posting, the website of the Army’s White Sands Missile Range, where […]
The Trinity Test Site Is Open One More Time This Year. You Might Not Get In.
The Army said the only day for tourists to visit the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico this year could be packed amid the massive popularity of the blockbuster movie “Oppenheimer.” White Sands Missile Range, where the U.S. detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon known as “the Gadget” on July 16, 1945, as part […]