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The 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity Site — now in the northern part of White Sands Missile Range — took place ...
These days, nuclear power is mostly confined to the sea. But have any nations ever experimented with taking nuclear power to the skies? Here's the story.
Eighty years ago this week, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his crew ushered in the nuclear age, when they successfully tested the first ever nuclear explosion in the New Mexico desert.