At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, briefly became a furnace unlike any on Earth’s surface ...
Forgotten photos of the Trinity detonation show the immensity of the project ...
The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in ...
Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.
In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site is ...
Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...