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 ...

Why it matters: A federal law that awards financial reparations to people who lived downwind of nuclear testing sites expired ...

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 ...

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 ...

Instead of insisting that such weapons are necessary to deter potential adversaries, members of the nuclear club should listen to the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks and their call for ...

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

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 ...

On 16 July 1945 the US detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb in the New Mexico desert. The test was final, terrible proof that nuclear energy could be weaponised, and prompted Robert ...

Early on the morning of July 16, 1945, the deserts of New Mexico exploded in a colossal, unspeakably brilliant fireball, ushering in the nuclear age at a test site called Trinity. For years ...