World War II

TWO-EDGED SWORD

HE ATOMIC AGE has been a topic of discourse from the moment an unnatural light flashed over the New Mexico desert sky on July 16, 1945. Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and other eyewitnesses recorded their real-time thoughts, observations, and emotions toward the Trinity nuclear test

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