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 ...

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 ...

While the prospect of a nuclear bomb being dropped on New York City is decidedly slim, the simulation - created by expert ...

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 ...

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 ...

A program to compensate uranium miners and people who lived downwind of nuclear bomb testing then developed certain cancers ...

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 ...

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 ...