The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site simulation explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945. The ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity Site — now in the northern part of White Sands ...

The Trinity Test was the first nuclear explosion in history. On July 16, 1945, Los Alamos scientists set off the first atomic bomb in New Mexico’s desert. That test is part of a legacy of weapons ...

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When the U.S. military detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon near New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, people living in the nearby areas were exposed to harmful radiation. Weeks later, ...

Trinity had a big impact on the total amount of radioactive fallout in the U.S. One of the only existing color images of the Trinity test. July 16, 1945. Photo: Jack W. Aeby/U.S. Department of Energy ...

For most of his life, Paul Pino believed his community had dodged the bullet when it came to nuclear fallout. It wasn’t until he’d retired from teaching high school history that he learned that his ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. July 16 marks the 80th anniversary of an event that changed the world forever: the Trinity atomic test, ...

A 100-ton explosive test occurred at Trinity Site on May 7, 1945, as a rehearsal for the atomic bomb test. The 100-ton test was largely unnoticed, unlike the July 16 atomic bomb test which was seen as ...