Profile: Visit to the Trinity site in New Mexico, where the first nuclear bomb test took placeBOB EDWARDS
The United States has only one type of nonstrategic nuclear weapon in its stockpile: the B61 gravity bomb. But it exists in several versions: the B61–3 and the B61–4 with yields varying from 0.3 kilotons up to 170 and 50 kilotons, respectively, and the new B61–12 entering the ...
A museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico (AP) — a once-secret New Mexico city that developed the atomic bomb — has put an exhibit from Japan on hold because of its theme of abolishing nuclear weapons. The Los Alamos Historical Museum confirmed Monday that it will not host a traveling...
Bearing a banner that read “¡Ya Basta! (un)Occupy The Bomb!” at least six people in New Mexico were arrested as a crowd of roughly 50 demonstrators, periodically throughout the day, blocked an entrance to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Occupying what was once Pueblo land and ...
to work ontheoreticalstudies on the atomic bomb withJ. Robert Oppenheimer; and when Oppenheimer set up the secretLos Alamos Scientific LaboratoryinNew Mexicoin 1943, Teller was among the first men recruited. Although theLos Alamosassignment was to build a fission bomb, Teller digressed more and ...
The Trinity Test was the first detonation of an atomic bomb by scientists at a test site of the U.S. Air Force base at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in 1945.
Plutonium from Hanford's B Reactor was used in the testing of the world's first atomic bomb in July 1945. Called the Trinity Test, the bomb was blown up in the New Mexico desert. Hanford plutonium was also used for the bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945. ...
Below is a compilation of posts I’ve made onBrave New Climate(each with plenty of hyperlinks to external resources for futher reading) which refer to nuclear power and the Gen IV exemplar design, theIntegral Fast Reactor Nuclear Power(IFR). Please be sure to also read through the comments ...
The bomb site of India and radioactive ruins... In short, the government of India wanted to build a new housing community. So in the region of Rajasthan, India, an area that covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur, they surveyed the land and built houses. People mo...
As part of the top-secret Manhattan Project, government scientists and the U.S. military dropped the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert in 1945. Nearly 200 atmospheric tests followed. Uranium mining persisted even after the tests ceased. ...