It was the greatest experiment ever conducted on U.S. soil. Discover 20 little-known facts about the Manhattan project.

a new study has been released that tracks the radioactive devastation wrought by the U.S. government’s first nuclear weapons test. The “Trinity” test, as it was secretly known, was the first ...

One of the most important projects of the 20th century was also one of the most daring and destructive, and it reshaped the ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

The first nuclear weapon test, code-named "Trinity," took place in the New Mexico desert at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. This ...

A Trinitite pendant. Image via Galactic Stone Whereas Fordite kept growing back for decades, all Trinitite comes from a single event — the Trinity nuclear bomb test near Alamogordo, New Mexico ...

July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...

And he explains how accurate Christopher Nolan's recreation of the construction of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos and the subsequent Trinity test was in "Oppenheimer" (2023), starring Cillian ...

The test was scheduled for 11 pm ... routine the frequent mention of Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Today’s weapons are much more powerful than the bombs born of Trinity that ...