The “Trinity” test, as it was secretly known, was the first nuclear detonation by the American military, occurring on July 16, 1945. That test resulted in the distribution of radioactive ...

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

And the glass generated from the Trinity test have peculiar similarities to ... 1945 humans detonated our first nuclear weapon. Code named Trinity, the detonation released the energy equivalent ...

Congress failed to pass legislation to compensate those poisoned by nuclear weapons activities. Meanwhile, money is flowing ...

Decades have passed since either Russia or the United States ran a live nuclear weapons test. Given that, would the nukes even work if they were fired in anger? The Trinity nuclear test was the ...

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 ...

Thirteen-year-old Barbara Kent attended her El Paso dance teacher’s prestigious month-long summer camp in the desert near ...

the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion. And what an explosion! The bomb was not dropped from an ...

Nuclear-weapons physicist Greg Spriggs rates ... of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos and the subsequent Trinity test was in "Oppenheimer" (2023), starring Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily ...

Since the first nuclear explosion in history during the Trinity test in 1945, nuclear weapons have significantly shaped the ...