The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site ...

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site is ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

William Leonard Laurence was one of the country’s first full-time science journalists, probably best known for his work at The New York Times. While there, he won two Pulitzer Prizes. He was the only ...