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'Growing, diversifying and modernizing': 80 year after Trinity blast, nuclear weapons remain a threat
GLOBAL, JUL 17 – Major nuclear powers invest in modernizing arsenals amid rising geopolitical tensions and ethical concerns, with nine countries currently possessing world-destroying weapons, experts say.
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Atomic Nightmare: Remember Los Alamos
By Eric Ross ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an extinction-level event, with the potential to claim up to two billion lives worldwide. The instability of a global order structured on nuclear apartheid has also come into sharp relief in the context of the recent attack…
80 Years After the Trinity Nuke Test, We’re Still Living an Atomic Nightmare
In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an extinction-level event, with the potential to claim up to two billion lives worldwide. The instability of a global order structured on nuclear apartheid has also come into sharp relief in the context… Source
This July 16 marked a new anniversary of the first nuclear detonation in history, known as the Trinity Test, carried out by the United States in 1945 in the desert of New Mexico. The event marked the beginning of the atomic era and had profound consequences for the world. Damian Cichero, licensed in International Relations, explained in Hola Chiche that this test was part of the Manhattan Project, a secret operation driven by the American govern…
ICAN, a civil organization working to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts, commemorated the 80 years of the first nuclear explosion in history, which occurred in the state of New Mexico, the United States, in the framework of the Manhattan research project. [...] The entry New Mexico recalls 80 years of the first nuclear explosion was first published in Information Focus.
At dawn on July 16, 1945, the first nuclear test, the Trinity test, took place in the United States, ushering in the nuclear age.
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