The photographic record presented in “Trinity” reflects the painstaking preparations and arduous work of men who toiled ...

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

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. The world’s first nuclear bomb test vaporized steel, copper, cables, ...

A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare radioactive mineral called trinitite.

On a dark July morning in 1945, U.S. scientists and military personnel detonated the world's first nuclear bomb in a remote area of New Mexico. The blast unleashed the energy equivalent of 25,000 tons ...

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when conditions return to normal. The Trinity nuclear test in 1945 left behind such ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.

Family photographs hang on the wall in Andrea Carrillo’s mother’s home in Tularosa, New Mexico. Carrillo’s sister died of cancer a few years ago, and many other relatives and local residents have ...

Scientists uncover a new crystal forged in the 1945 Trinity nuclear test while researchers link GLP-1 drugs to improved ...