It was the greatest experiment ever conducted on U.S. soil. Discover 20 little-known facts about the Manhattan project.

The first atomic bomb ever exploded was a test device ... to a place known to the scientists as Trinity in a stretch of southern New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto—the journey ...

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.

Fuchs was present at the Trinity Test – the first detonation of a nuclear bomb to which he had made a significant ...

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 ...

One of the most important projects of the 20th century was also one of the most daring and destructive, and it reshaped the ...

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 “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 ...

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.