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April 21, 1983

The U.S. government has made public (unclassified) the report written by Enrico Fermi with observations immediately after the nuclear explosion at Trinity Site, New Mexico, in which the Italian-American physicist describes his rough (but accurate) estimate of the force of the explosion using slips of paper dropped from a height of 1.8 meters to estimate the strength of the wind.