Courtesy of Barbara Kent The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot ...

was created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test. This groundbreaking find, published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), shows that the Trinity test—conducted at 5:29 am ...

Nuclear weapons can create massive fireballs, hurricane force winds, and clouds of radioactive dust, but what if one is ...

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 ...

The movie released nationwide on July 21 acts out the first atomic bomb test in the U.S. held in 1945 at the Trinity Site in central New Mexico, an event that left people living nearby struggling ...

I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Seismographs in Tucson detected the explosion from 280 miles away. The test bomb ...

After all, the real Trinity test was the detonation of the first atomic bomb—and a transformative moment in world history. It ushered in a new era of technology and introduced a nuclear threat ...