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| History Dept: Trinity! |
| 2012-07-16 |
| Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the atomic age, with the first detonation of a nuclear device. Nicknamed 'the gadget,' it was a ~20KT explosion at White Sands Proving Ground, NM. Wikipedia's article has more background, and seems well written. |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #3 "Behold, for I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds." |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-07-16 14:16 |
| #2 Well, maybe not... |
| Posted by: Slusosh Thrineck4715 2012-07-16 10:16 |
| #1 In celebration: This is a Flash video that starts slow, but around 3 minutes in… well. It shows every nuclear bomb explosion on the Earth from 1945 — the US test before the bombs dropped on Japan — to 1998, when India and Pakistan joined the madness. |
| Posted by: Slusosh Thrineck4715 2012-07-16 10:14 |