60th Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb

An anonymous reader writes "On July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear bomb exploded at Trinity Site, New Mexico, marking the beginning of the Nuclear Age. Manhattan Project veteran Herb Lehr has no regrets: 'In a lot of respects I felt as if I had done something worthwhile. I am in no way ashamed of what I had done in any way, shape, matter or form. I did what I was told to do. I did it to the best of my ability.' Lehr will return to Trinity Site for the first time since the explosion. He said, 'I'm just interested in going and seeing it and maybe getting some memories back. Los Alamos was a whole interesting experience. It was something unique. I worked very hard down there.'"

Comments

So much for stopping nuclear proliferation.

[John Seminal]

For thoes people who are interested in building their own, here is a primer

I am suprised the government has not taken down that website. Is showing how to build a nuclear bomb a national secret? Didn't people get locked up in jail for longer times for taking home laptops from National Labs? What was the name of that chinese scientist who got sent to jail??

Or are we at the point now where the information on how to build a bomb is useless because there is no more uranium left?

I remember reading that most of the Uranium in the world was in Africa, and the USA mined almost all of it. I wonder if new pockets can be found by nations, or if the USA has all mineral rights to that continent? I would not be suprised to see a war over it, or at the least, paying off the tribal government for the USA to take it.

Then there is the issue of refining it, like they are doing in Iran. How difficult is this to detect? Why don't they do it underground, why does Iran do this in a place the world can see?

Re:"I did what I was told to do."

[Anonymous Coward]

America did commit genocide against the Native Americans, then built their ill-gotten nation on African slave labour.