At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn ...

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what ...

A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare radioactive mineral called trinitite.

BREAKING visuals and reports from the UAE have triggered global alarm after claims of a “massive explosion” at the Barakah nuclear facility in Abu Dhabi—but here’s what is actually confirmed so far.

Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.

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