Why it matters: A federal law that awards financial reparations to people who lived downwind of nuclear testing sites expired ...

On July 16, 1945 humans detonated our first nuclear weapon. Code named Trinity, the detonation released the energy equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT and was hot enough to turn sand into glass.

A Trinitite pendant. Image via Galactic Stone Whereas Fordite kept growing back for decades, all Trinitite comes from a single event — the Trinity nuclear bomb test near Alamogordo, New Mexico ...

A Trinitite pendant. Image via Galactic Stone Whereas Fordite kept growing back for decades, all Trinitite comes from a single event — the Trinity nuclear bomb test near Alamogordo, New Mexico ...

Zoom out: The New Mexico residents only learned about the Trinity Test after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The bomb's ...

At Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a nuclear reactor and plant ... On July 13, 1945, at a site called Trinity 100 km northwest of Alamogordo, a plutonium bomb was assembled and brought to the top of a ...

The test, code-named "Trinity," took place on July 16 ... Their plan was to place an atom bomb inside a heavy shell that would also contain a capsule of hydrogen fuel. When the atom bomb exploded ...

Please check again later. This is it - the complete set of 5 Atomic Bomb videos: Trinity & Beyond, Nukes in Space, Atomic Journeys, Nuclear 911, and Atomic Filmmakers. Director/producer Peter ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at Trinity site in ... to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.