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Adam Frost

Adam Frost is a Masters student at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, specializing in Foreign and Defense Policy.

Stories from this author

July 16, 1945, over Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Seventy Years After the Trinity Test, There Are 16,000 Nuclear Weapons in the World

And it all started with three explosions in the summer of 1945.