Nuclear Activities and Policies of the Russia from the Cold War until Nowadays by Harun ARAS

“…The USSR successfully carried out the first atomic bomb test in 1949 shortly after the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 at the behest of the US President Truman. …”
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Remembering the Atomic Bomb in its Birthplace, New Mexico by Lucie Genay

“…On July 16, 1945 the « Land of Enchantment » acquired a new identity as the cradle of the nuclear age when the world’s first atomic bomb exploded in the Jornada del Muerto desert. …”
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The Critical Mass of Language: Post-Trinity Representation by Daniel F. Spoth

“…To its viewers, the first atomic bomb test (codenamed "Trinity") appeared as not merely a dazzling, unprecedented leap forward in the history of science, not merely the swift, fiery eradication of all of their long-held fears and anxieties concerning the success of the project, but also a monumental event in the history of language (Thomas Farrell saw in it "that beauty the great poets dream about but describe most poorly and inadequately"). …”
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The Morphology of Prometheus, Literary Geography and the Geoethical Project by Charles Travis

“…The remediation of the Prometheus myth in Mary Shelley’s <i>Frankenstein; or the modern Prometheus</i> (1818), Jonathan Fetter-Vorm’s <i>Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb</i> (2012) and William Golding’s novel <i>Lord of the Flies</i> (1954) provides the means to explore the geographical, historical and cultural contingencies of geoethical dilemmas contributing to the framing of the Anthropocene and <i>Gaia</i> heuristics. …”
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