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Ah, America: the land where

conflating violence and freedom are
a way of life. In addition to being the
home of baseball, junk food, and
some damn good music, America
holds the distinction for being the
only country in the world to have
wiped out hundreds of thousands of
people by using nuclear weapons in
war times, allegedly to fight evil, but
realistically because Harry Truman
wanted to see what all the hype was
about. In any case, as always, the
good white dudes in ‘Murica beat
those damn Japanese and Nazis and
the whole world loves us for it.

Regardless of my personal opinions

and the historical half-truths
surrounding the end of World War II, I
have always been fascinated with the
elephant in the room anytime the
subject of nuclear weapons comes
up; namely questions of ethics and
our collective responsibility when it
comes to the use of such weapons.
This recently led me to do a little bit
of research and I stumbled upon a
gallery depicting images of nuclear

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weapon tests on US soil. For now, I’ll

let the images do the talking and
defer to you the reader to ponder the
big questions in the comment
section below.

1Mt, Christmas Island, 10.Jun.1962

20kt-1Mt, Christmas Island,

9.Jun.1962

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17kt, Nevada Test Site, 18.Aug.1957

13.7kt, Eniwetok, 6.Jun.1956

8.9Mt, Eniwetok, 28.Jun.1958

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10.4Mt, Eniwetok, 31.Oct.1952

10.4Mt, Eniwetok, 31.Oct.1952

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<1Mt, Johnston Island, 1.Nov.1962

15kt, Nevada Test Site, 25.May.1953

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Eniwetok, 1951

225kt, Nevada Test Site, 8.May, 1951

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11kt, Nevada Test Site, 14.Sep.1957

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“Buster Dog,” 21kt, Nevada Test Site,

1.Nov.1951

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14kt, Nevada Test Site, 30.Oct.1951

1Mt, Johnston Island,

18.Oct.1962

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“Buster Charlie”, 14kt, Nevada Test

Site, 30.Oct.1951

1Mt, Christmas Island,

30.Jun.1962

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<1Mt, Johnston Island, 26.Oct.1962

1M, Christmas Island,

27.Jun.1962

21kt, Bikini, 24.Jul.1946

* All photos (and more) from Trinity

Atomic Web Site.

In this article: atom bomb, history,

military, nuclear weapons, united states,
WMA

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