On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were ...

The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945.

The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...

Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.

“It was a quirk of history that at that moment the energy of the atom was engineered to kill,” Schmidt told The National Interest. “The longer legacy of that day will be much greater than ‘the bomb.’ ...

White Sands Missile Range will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Trinity Site test, marking a new era in scientific ...

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...

As the world marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated in the New Mexican desert, a Nevada congresswoman ...

July 16 stands out in history as a day marked by groundbreaking achievements, pivotal moments in global politics, and ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico; the ...

Explore the Trinity nuclear test's historical significance, its role in WWII, and the ongoing implications of nuclear weapons ...