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Radioactive Trinitite Glass at World’s First Nuclear Test Site Helps Scientists Test Moon-formation Theories

The world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945 at a test site in the New Mexico desert, which is far away from San Diego. However, a scientist from San Diego is now collecting samples of radioactive glass trinitite from that site to test the validity of a popular moon-formation theory. Trinitite or atomsite is […]