The first nuclear explosion is remembered:
Lawrence Johnston, a University of Idaho physics professor emeritus, will join other scientists invited by the National Academy of Sciences to Washington, D.C., July 14 to recall the 1945 detonation of the first nuclear weapon.
The symposium will mark the 60th anniversary of Trinity, the first manmade nuclear explosion. The event will feature 11 scientists and veterans who participated in the test at the Trinity site on New Mexico’s Alamogordo Bombing Range.
Johnston witnessed the successful early morning test July 16, 1945, and the later use of nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. He is believed to be the only person to witness all three.
July 14th, 2005 | Misc.