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 ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Army surgeon involved in U.S. nuclear weapons development repeatedly warned about the impact of radiation on humans, but ...

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 ...