TRINITY, 80 YEARS ON
TRINITY, 80 YEARS ON
Nuclear perils remain, resistance persists
On July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army’s Manhattan Project secretly tested a plutonium bomb, code-named “Trinity,” in southern New Mexico (pictured). As they do annually, New Mexicans commemorated the fallout, both literal and figurative, this week. (Incredibly enough, New Mexico has two nuclear catastrophes, both dated July 16th, to commemorate; the second happened in 1979, the massive uranium tailings spill at the Diné Red Water Pond Road Community, at Church Rock.) Just three weeks after Trinity, the U.S. atom bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Despite the lessons that should have been learned, nuclear perils persist, including the risk of nuclear war. But resistance continues. This week, groups like Nuclear Watch NM pushed back against expanded nuclear weapons plutonium pit production.
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