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 ...

A bright, blinding light flashed above New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. The thunderous roar that followed jolted 14-year-old Jess Gililland awake on the porch of ...

When the first atomic bomb exploded on July 16, 1945, at 5:29 AM, the world did not immediately change, but it would never be the same again. On July 16, 1945, the immense destructive power of nuclear ...

The mushroom cloud forms seconds after the Trinity atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945. "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." That paraphrased line from the Bhagavad Gita crossed Robert ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. Even after the renowned physicist Hans ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as waves of destructive energy obliterated two cites. It was a decisive ...

FILE - The first U.S. atom bomb explodes during a test in Alamogordo, N.M., July 16, 1945. The cloud went 40,000 feet in the air, as viewed by an automatic camera six miles away from the site. (AP ...

We are amidst the 80th anniversary of three solemn days in world history, calling us to action for the sake of all life on earth. Wednesday marks 80 years since Trinity, the first detonation of a ...

New Mexico Sen. Leo Jaramillo walks into a theater for the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024.

Can a play influence public perception of our shared atomic history enough to shift the conversation away from a presumed nuclear “renaissance” and into a more critical, life-protective examination of ...