High atop a 100-foot metal tower in the New Mexico desert, the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated in a test called Trinity on July 16, 1945, at 5:29 AM in a valley known as the Jornada del Muerto, the Dead Man’s Journey. The mushroom cloud rose between 50,000 and 70,000 feet into the sky and the blast lit up the sky as far as El Paso, 130 miles away to the south. No one at the time knew where the fallout would end up, but now a study reveals that within 10 days, the radioactivity reached 46 states, Canada, and Mexico.
As depicted in the biopic Oppenheimer, the Trinity test ushered in a new age that included both above-ground and underground nuclear weapons testing, as well as the two horrific examples of their use against the Japanese at the close of World War II. The U.S. conducted its last nuclear test, codenamed Divider, at an underground facility in Nevada on September 23, 1992. It was the last of 1,032 nuclear tests carried out by the United States.
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I look into the "Galveston Plan," a form of government invented in Galveston in 1901 after the 1900 Storm. This style of municipal government spread rapidly across the United States. It is still used in one of the United States' most Populous Cities; Portland, Oregon.
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