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Manhattan Project

Tragedy Revisited~II

Not much publicity has been given in this part of the world to the fact that the American Hispanics faced brutal discrimination and were the first victims of the Manhattan Project that produced the bomb. It is a little known historical fact that when the US conducted the Trinity test, the world‘s first atom bomb explosion, but not with the kind of devastating effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the radiation fallouts due to wind direction affected the Hispanics severely

Why we should worry about a nuclear winter

On 16 July 1945, the world witnessed the mind-boggling destructive power hidden inside a nuclear bomb. After seeing the catastrophic might of the bomb at the Trinity Test Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, famously invoked a quote from the Bhagavad Gita, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."