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Trinity Witnesses Recall Summer "Snow"

This year is the 75th anniversary of the Trinity Test in southern New Mexico. It was the first detonation of a nuclear device—the unleashing of the unholy might of the tiny atom.

To mark the occasion, reporter Dennis Carroll, in an ongoing series of reports, examines what we have learned about the changing attitudes, the shroud of secrecy, claims of bad science and the apparent utter disregard for Trinity’s neighbors that now surround the test and its aftermath decades later.

Next in Dennis Carroll's series marking the 75th anniversary of the Trinity Test: Bad science, suffocating secrecy and frightening comparisons to Chernobyl.

© 2020 Dennis Carroll

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