On this day in 1945 the US Government undertook the testing of the world's first atomic bomb in New Mexico.
The Tinity explosion and the resultant mushroom cloud ensured that the world would never again be the same. For the next 40 plus years we would live under a cloud of a different sort, the one of fear and paranoia.
Whilst the scale of Robert Oppenheimer's achievement cannot be denied the question is did he advance humanity or retard it?http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Trinity.html
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It depends on what you consider the human advance is... for me, it was worsening.
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