At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity entered a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear explosion blossomed over New Mexico. As the blast, known as the Trinity nuclear test, vaporised the ...

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 ...

AT 15 seconds to 5.30 am on 16 July 1945, the world’s first nuclear explosion turned 4 hectares of sand into glass and signalled the start of the atomic age. It happened at the Trinity site in the ...

A team of geologists at the University of Florence, Italy, identified a novel clathrate that formed during the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert. It's a material never ...

Prior to 1945, nuclear weapons were just an idea that could be discussed in theoretical physics literature. This changed when J.

“I AM become death, the shatterer of worlds.” These words from the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, flashed through physicist Robert Oppenheimer’s mind as he watched the first atomic bomb test in a ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – This week marks 81 years since the Trinity bomb detonated in New Mexico. To commemorate the lives the fallout left on families, environmental science and anti-radiation leaders ...