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- Nuclear fallout from the Trinity Test damaged a batch of the Eastman Kodak Company's X-ray film.
- A company physicist traced the damage back to weapons testing before the bomb was public information.
- To settle threats to sue, the government agreed to alert Kodak before any other nuclear tests.
When the first nuclear bomb was tested on July 16, 1945, the US government thought they'd done everything to cover their tracks. They dropped it in a remote New Mexico Army base and fed a fake story to reporters about an ammunition explosion to explain the noise.