#nuclear test

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

Bikini Atoll nuclear test, 1946

[thenuclearmallard]

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Trinity Test

On the morning of 16 July 1945, just as dawn broke over the desert of New Mexico, the world’s first nuclear test was conducted.

Known as the Trinity Test, it marked the beginning of the atomic age.

Yet, only miles away in the Ruidoso area, a group of thirteen-year-old girls were on a simple summer camping trip.

They swam in the river, laughed, and played under the sky, completely unaware that an unprecedented explosion had just torn through the desert horizon, releasing radioactive fallout that would drift silently across the land.

Among those girls was Barbara Kent, pictured at the front of a photograph taken that day.

Like the others, she unknowingly came into contact with fallout from the blast, which settled on the earth and water where they played.

In later years, Kent recalled how she and her friends had tossed ash-like debris in the air, never imagining it was radioactive dust.

It was, for them, a summer of innocence, while history was quietly reshaped around them.

The consequences, however, were devastating. Over the decades, Kent began to hear that her fellow campers were succumbing to illness, one by one.

By the time she reached thirty, she realized she was the sole survivor of the group.

In 2021, at the age of 89, she spoke about her life marked by repeated battles with cancer — endometrial, skin, and others — tracing it back to that summer morning in 1945.

Her testimony remains one of the most poignant reminders of how the atomic age touched not only the battlefields of war but also the quiet lives of ordinary children.

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[Operation Cue] - A few minutes after detonation the atomic blast in Operation Cue looked like this

Record Group 304: Records of the Office of Civil and Defense MobilizationSeries: Photographs of Operation Cue

Three men watch a mushroom cloud dissipate in the distance.

[rauko]

The Gadget | First Atomic Bomb Prototype | 07.16.45

Finally over the horizon on nuclear fission weapon technology, the U.S. government could have put the same amount of time & energy testing nuclear fusion reactors—achieving a surplus of electricity for every American. Instead, it dropped a plasma ball hotter than the sun on a civilian populace of two hundred thousand humans—twice.

[humanoidhistory]

Another sad gif from the draft folder. A remnant of aimlessness in the 2000s and 2010s.

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[loworbittourist]

New Mexico - USA 🌎 A square of 1 mile for each side, located in proximity to the Trinity Nuclear Test Site. No information available but it is most likely part of an old nuclear test site too. 4k link