An excerpt from "Trinity: An Illustrated History of the World’s First Atomic Test," by author Emily Seyl.

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Incident light images of the red trinitite sample used in this study (front and back of the sample). Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2026). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2604165123 Matter ...

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People in New Mexico who developed cancer and suffered other health issues in the decades following the 1945 Trinity nuclear test are now eligible for compensation. The Trinity test, which happened 80 ...

A team of geologists at the University of Florence, Italy, identified a novel clathrate that formed during the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert. It's a material never ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...

Representatives of various groups, including one that earned a Nobel Peace Prize, gathered at an interfaith event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to call for nuclear disarmament worldwide. Hosted by the ...

July 16 marked the 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb explosion, at what the bomb’s creator, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, called the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The harsh desert terrain had ...