Cancer Study May Win Fallout Victims Compensation for First US Nuclear Test
(Sputnik) – Michael Levin, a spokesperson for the institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), told The Associated Press Tuesday that the study should be concluded by early next year. The Trinity Test was the world’s first man-made nuclear explosion, detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto region of New Mexico. The test was to confirm that the design for a terrible new weapon, one that could destroy entire cities in a single explosion, could actually work. Trinity’s success gave the US military the go-ahead to use the weapon in combat, which it did several…
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