On this day in 1945...

…the USA tested the world’s first nuclear weapon near Soccoro, New Mexico.

Approximately 20kt atop a 104ft tower.

78 years ago & we still cower in the shadow of the bombs and we dare pretend to call it peace.

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Prompt, local fallout (“Trinitite”) formed from tower & weapon debris mixed with sand from ground.

Thru Freedom of Information Act I got publicly released color, aerial video.

You can see “lake” of green.

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Video Posted Here:
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For those of you who have never had opportunity to visit the Trinity Site…

…I made a basic virtual tour.

osf.io/bthn9/

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We have funded Doomsday Machines instead of human needs.

We have poured onto sand the brilliance of our scientists & engineers & the labor of our people.

We have daily planned, practiced, and prepared to slaughter hundreds of millions of innocent civilians.

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Nuclear weapons, & militarized systems of power and dominance that enable & build off of them, are not the result of some predetermined human nature.

Living like this is a choice we have made and that we make daily and that we can change. We can choose differently.

@nuclearanthro Don’t consider this a critical reply, just an observation that humans when it comes to technology do whatever can be achieved. It’s in our nature and morality takes a back seat especially when we feel threatened. “If we don’t do it, someone else will.” We do what we are capable of doing. It’s a good argument as to why as a species, we are not well suited to successfully navigate The Great Filter. astronomy.com/science/the-grea

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