Tag Archives: Trinity

When Kodak Accidentally Discovered A-Bomb Testing via Popular Mechanics

Posted on 2016/07/05 by norma field

By Matt Blitz The ground shook, a brilliant white flash enveloped the sky, and the world changed forever. Code name “Trinity,” the bomb test at dawn on July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico was the first large-scale atomic weapons … Continue reading →

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70 Years Later, Health Impacts of First US Nuclear Detonation Still Being Felt via Reuters

Posted on 2015/07/17 by norma field

People who lived near the site of the first atomic bomb test in the New Mexico desert and later developed cancer and other health problems need to be compensated, a U.S. senator said Thursday. The federal government neglected residents of … Continue reading →

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　‘Los Alamos will never be clean’ via The Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2015/07/14 by norma field

ID CANYON — A dirt trail shaded by ponderosa pines drops down the slope of this small canyon below the Los Alamos Nature Center and a recreation center. The canyon became a dumping ground during the Manhattan Project. Old pipes, … Continue reading →

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Udall meets with Tularosa Downwinders via Alamagordo News

Posted on 2015/07/03 by norma field

Fifteen days away from the 70th anniversary of the Trinity blast, Sen. Tom Udall met with the Tularosa Basin Downwinders to hear stories of how radiation from the atomic bomb affected the health and genes of the people in surrounding … Continue reading →

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Trinity Test Site Opening to Face Protest from Residents via The New York Times

Posted on 2015/04/06 by norma field

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Seven decades after an atomic bomb helped end World War II, descendants of families near a New Mexico test want tourists to know residents suffered for years afterward and some of their children may have been affected. … Continue reading →

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‘Downwinders’ still demanding money for Trinity Site fallout via KOAT.com

Posted on 2015/04/05 by norma field

TULAROSA, N.M. —The nuclear bomb is a weapon credited with helping win World War II, but some people see it differently. “Trinity killed a lot of people, and it’s still killing people, and it’s going to kill people for a … Continue reading →

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Santa Clara activist works to find balance among disparate cultures via Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2015/02/01 by norma field

Marian Naranjo remembers too well the day her passions for truth-telling and conflict resolution were born. Naranjo was a third-grader in a school in Tooele, Utah. Men from Santa Clara Pueblo, including her father, worked for long periods at the … Continue reading →

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Don’t throw history out with the radioactive bathwater via Aljazeera America

Posted on 2015/01/15 by norma field

Trisha Pritikin On Dec. 12, Congress passed legislation to create the Manhattan Project National Historical Park at three nuclear plants in Washington state, New Mexico and Tennessee. President Barack Obama signed the bill into law on Dec. 19. The park … Continue reading →

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Women Respond to the Manhattan Project via Olivia Fermi

Posted on 2014/11/07 by norma field
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【short video】Group: Nuclear bomb test affected NM residents via KOAT Albuquerque

Posted on 2014/11/01 by norma field

Nearly 70 years ago, the first atomic bomb detonated in southern New Mexico at what’s now known as the Trinity Site. Read more: http://www.koat.com/news/group-nuclear-bomb-test-affected-nm-residents/29450018#ixzz3HrwM8mCC Watch 3-minute video.

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