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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

On July 16, 1945, the breakthroughs at Los Alamos were put to the test in a world-changing experiment called Trinity ... Americans dropped the first atom bomb, devastating the Japanese city ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.