The “Trinity” test, as it was secretly known, was the first nuclear detonation by the American military, occurring on July 16, 1945. That test resulted in the distribution of radioactive ...

Tatlock’s interest in the poetry of John Donne inspired Oppenheimer to name the first atomic bomb test ‘Trinity ... he was never involved in the Manhattan Project, and believed ultimately ...

After the Trinity test, she joined several of the top Manhattan Project scientists in signing a petition that urged the military to demonstrate the bomb’s destructive capability rather than drop ...

where Manhattan Project scientists would use it in the development of atomic weapons. Some of this material ended up in the ...

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 ...

The Manhattan Project National Historical Park ... Within a month of the Trinity test, two bombs -- Little Boy and Fat Man -- were dropped on the two cities in Japan, killing tens of thousands ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...