Mephistopheles' insolent grin against the backdrop of a “nuclear winter.” ‘Uragan’ instead of “Ukraine”

Mephistopheles' insolent grin against the backdrop of a “nuclear winter.” ‘Uragan’ instead of “Ukraine”. Collage by Olena Zelenina at the Gromada Group Media
Collage by Olena Zelenina.

It has been 80 years since the Trinity test was conducted. Half a century ago, on July 16, 1945, the dawn of the atomic age began, shining brighter than a thousand suns over the state of New Mexico. On that day, a nuclear device—the prototype of the atomic bomb—was detonated at the Trinity test site. Three weeks later, an American bomber dropped a terrible bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

It is a day to remember the lives it affected and to acknowledge the lasting consequences.

 

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