75 years ago at 5:29 a.m. on 7/16 1945 scientists gathered in the desert of NM to witness the first A-bomb test, code-named Trinity. The countdown began, followed by a burst of white light and a fireball that seemed to transform the sky. One of them thought, “Fermi was right.”

Shameful for history's sake. Just 6 years later, my father sat in a foxhole in Nevada, his Korean War tour of duty as a nuclear veteran. At that test-site, where unimaginable ionizing radiation pierced him and others, my Dad was gone in 1968 when the leukemia took deadly hold.