At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...
The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in ...
A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what ...
Forgotten photos of the Trinity detonation show the immensity of the project ...
Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a violent asteroid collision in the early solar system. This tells us that ...
The Trinity test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, generated the glassy substance known as trinitite when sand and surrounding ...
The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn ...