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Buy a thrift store lamp shade for this BRILLIANT front porch idea!
Transform your front porch with this innovative and budget-friendly idea! In this video, discover how a simple thrift store lamp shade can be repurposed into a stunning centerpiece for your outdoor ...
Eighty Years After the First Nuke Test, the World Is at a Dangerous Crossroads
On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of ...
First atomic bomb explosion has lasting impact on New Mexico
Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.
A look inside a lab making the advanced fuel to power growing US nuclear energy ambitions
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.
What happened when the Trinity test bomb detonated, from the creation of green glass to fallout that drifted over 1,000 miles
The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.
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Keeping the lights on with nuclear waste: Radiochemistry transforms nuclear waste into strategic materials
The world has been enriching uranium for many decades, primarily beginning in the Cold War era. As a result, there are ...
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Instant flash, slow burn: 80 years later, New Mexico still feels effects of Trinity Test
The state was immediately changed by Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project's detonation of the world's first atomic weapon, ...
This Day in History: First successful test of atomic bomb conducted on July 16, 1945
MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On July 16, 1945, the first successful test of the atomic bomb was conducted in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The explosion in the desert equaled 20,000 tons of TNT. Radioactive fallout ...