The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in ...

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...

Civilians have received benefits for work at the Nevada test site, but Cold War-era regulations still do not allow veterans ...

Forgotten photos of the Trinity detonation show the immensity of the project ...

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure ...

At 6:45 a.m. on March 1, 1954, the U.S. detonated a thermonuclear weapon at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a chain of ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

Lucy Benavidez Garwood was 13 years old when the Trinity atomic bomb test was detonated at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, 50 miles from her home in Tularosa, on July 16, 1945. A ...

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...