Trinity was the first test of technology for a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945, at a location 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what is now White Sands Missile Range, headquartered near Alamogordo. Trinity was a test of an implosion-design plutonium bomb. The Fat Man bomb, using the same conceptual design, was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, a few weeks later. The detonation was equivalent to the explosion of around 20 kilotons of TNT and is usually considered as the beginning of the Atomic Age.
[From Trinity (nuclear test) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
The threat of nuclear annihilation for us all became real 63 years ago. Since then, we have all been sons of bitches. Mutually Assured Destruction came and passed us. Now we are living in the age of the dumb bomb and the dirty bomb.
And social networks. Just think what a pain in the ass archeologists are going to have 1,000 years from now, trying to figure us out.
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