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    Fallout from the Trinity nuclear test in 1945 impacted a broad swath of eastern New Mexico with hundreds of thousands of people exposed to radioactivity...
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    Resulting from Exposure to Radioactive Fallout from the Trinity Nuclear Test". National Cancer Institute. March 28, 2014. Archived from the original on...
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    program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining, cratering, and other civilian purposes. The radioactive fallout from the test contaminated more...
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    Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Nuclear testing...
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    additional nuclear fallout from entering into the atmosphere. Public concern about fallout from nuclear testing grew in the early 1950s. Fallout was discovered...
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    Nuclear fallout is residual radioactive material that is created by the reactions producing a nuclear explosion. It is initially present in the radioactive...
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    dispersion of nuclear fallout. The United States has maintained a unilateral moratorium on nuclear explosive testing since 1992 and signed the Comprehensive...
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    Since the Trinity test and excluding combat use, countries with nuclear weapons have detonated roughly 1,700 nuclear explosions, all but six as tests. Of...
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  • underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965. Chagan was the first and largest of the 124 detonations in the Nuclear Explosions...
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    over the magnitude of nuclear tests, particularly tests of new thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs), and the resulting nuclear fallout. A test ban was...
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    Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a controlled manner pursuant to a military...
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    Between the Trinity nuclear test of 16 July 1945 and the signing of the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) on 5 August 1963, 499 nuclear tests were conducted...
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  • Jerboa') was the codename of the first French nuclear test. It was conducted by the Nuclear Experiments Operational Group (GOEN), a unit of the Joint Special...
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    PJ). Apart from the blast, effects of nuclear weapons include firestorms, extreme heat and ionizing radiation, radioactive nuclear fallout, an electromagnetic...
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    pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July...
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    White Sands Missile Range (category Weapons test sites)
    the missile range property. Fallout from the Trinity nuclear test McDonald Ranch House, location of the final assembly of the world's first nuclear weapon...
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  • Downwinders (category Nuclear weapons testing)
    contamination or nuclear fallout from atmospheric or underground nuclear weapons testing, and nuclear accidents. More generally, the term can also include...
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    The United States performed nuclear weapons tests from 1945 to 1992 as part of the nuclear arms race. By official count, there were 1,054 nuclear tests...
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  • People from Iodine-131 in Fallout Following Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb Tests: History of the Nevada Test Site and Nuclear Testing Background" (PDF). National...
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    The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon...
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    long-term effects, primarily from the fallout released, and could also lead to secondary effects, such as "nuclear winter", nuclear famine, and societal collapse...
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    Mushroom cloud (category Nuclear weapons)
    fallout following a nuclear blast. The stabilization altitude depends strongly on the profiles of the temperature, dew point, and wind shear in the air...
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    allowing the formation of many transuranic elements. The elements einsteinium and fermium were discovered when analyzing nuclear fallout from the first hydrogen...
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    Socorro County, New Mexico (category Articles with dead external links from June 2025)
    Institute of Mining and Technology Trinity Site, the first test of an atomic bomb Fallout from the Trinity nuclear test Very Large Array Cibola National...
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    needed] The global alarm over radioactive fallout, which began with the Castle Bravo event, eventually drove nuclear testing literally underground. The last...
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    the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (2009) Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon (2006) Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power (2011)...
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    as the Federation of Atomic Scientists and the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. Radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing was...
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    in warfare, and the second nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity nuclear test. It exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT...
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  • Operation Peppermint (category Nuclear program of Nazi Germany)
    the Manhattan Project used the equipment to assess the fallout from the Trinity nuclear test, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Operation Crossroads...
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  • altering the amount of nuclear fallout. While the effect of a tamper is to increase efficiency, both by reflecting neutrons and by delaying the expansion...
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