At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity entered a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear explosion blossomed over New Mexico. As the blast, known as the Trinity nuclear test, vaporised the ...

Historic crystal find: Researchers discovered a calcium–copper–silicon clathrate in debris from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test, marking the first such crystal from a nuclear explosion. Extreme ...

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 ...

Editor's note: If you'd like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...

TRINITY: An Illustrated History of the World's First Atomic Test. By Emily Seyl. University of Chicago Press. 334 pages. $39. From a complex in a remote expanse of New Mexico, a team of scientists led ...

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