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 ...

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 ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

The path to resurgent fears of nuclear war began in 1945, with the first nuclear test blast at the Trinity test site in New Mexico. In 1963, during the throes of America’s Cold War rivalry with ...

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 the movie, starring Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, and ...