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World's 1st nuclear device explosion announcement...
World's 1st nuclear device explosion announcement...
Item # 716842
September 26, 1945
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 26, 1945
* Manhattan Project comes to a climax
* Trinity nuclear test is made public (1st time)
* Director physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer
* Post atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The front page has a two column heading; "Drama of the Atomic Bomb Found Climax in July 16 Test" (see images) Lengthy 1st report coverage continues on page 16.
Complete with 40 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.
background: In 1945, New York Times journalist William L. Laurence wrote a widely circulated editorial and series of reports on the atomic bomb, portraying it as a monumental scientific achievement and a decisive force that ended World War II. As an embedded reporter with the U.S. War Department and a witness to both the Trinity Test and the Nagasaki mission, Laurence framed the bomb as a symbol of American ingenuity and a harbinger of future peacetime benefits. His writings celebrated the weapon’s power and strategic impact, while largely omitting the human suffering it caused, a perspective later criticized for promoting government propaganda and minimizing the moral and humanitarian consequences of nuclear warfare.
Category: The 20th Century
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