July 16, 2015, was the 70th anniversary of the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear test. Many media outlets around the country and the world covered the anniversary. Here is a roundup of some of the news articles commemorating the anniversary.
- The First Light of Trinity – Alex Wellerstein in The New Yorker
- Seven Decades Ago, A New, Enormous Kind Of Explosion – NPR
- Los Alamos marks 70 years since Trinity test gave us the bomb – The Washington Post
- Interest spikes as atomic bomb test marks 70th anniversary – Associated Press
- It’s been 70 years since the U.S. detonated its first atomic bomb – The Sun Times
- 70 years ago, the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico – Mashable
- ‘Destroyer of worlds’: The 70-year legacy of the 1st nuclear bomb – Canada TV
- When the U.S. Army Brought Reporters to a Still-Hot Atomic Test Site – Time
- The start of the nuclear age – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- The nuclear age turns 70 today – Ars Technica
- Trinity witness recalls Manhattan Project work, day ‘genie came out of the bottle’ – The Japan Times
- Zündung der ersten Atombombe am – WDR (in German)