Anniversary of Nuclear Age ; Six Decades Have Passed Since First Atomic Blast
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Herb Lehr hasn't been to Trinity Site since the day a mushroom cloud filled the early morning sky in the south- central New Mexico desert 60 years ago Saturday.
Standing 12 miles from the blast, he looked toward the Oscura mountains and watched the nuclear age usher in at 5:29:45 Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945.See the full content of this document
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Anniversary of Nuclear Age ; Six Decades Have Passed Since First Atomic Blast
"All of a sudden this very bright light came out and where I was, it was intense enough that the whole mountain range itself was completely whited out," he said. "I took the smoke g...
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