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World's first nuclear explosion forged an 'impossible' crystal that's like nothing else on Earth
At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...
Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.
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The sand that melted under the world’s first nuclear explosion revealed a crystal structure nobody expected
Trinitite was born on July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., when a plutonium device codenamed “Gadget” detonated atop a test tower nearly a hundred feet in the air at an Air Force base near Alamogordo, New ...
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