In an instant, the bomb obliterated everything. The tower it sat on and the copper wires strung around it: vaporized. The desert sand below: melted. In the aftermath of the first test of an atomic ...

Smooth jade-green glass formed by the world’s first atomic bomb test 60 years ago at Trinity Site in New Mexico wasn’t created the way previously believed, say two scientists whose hobby is studying ...

It’s reasonable to think of nuclear bombs in terms of their destructive capabilities; splitting the atom means obliteration for anything in the blast radius. But, as a team of geologists and ...

On July 16, 1945, humanity carried out the very first successful atomic bomb test at the Trinity site in the desert of New Mexico. This plutonium-based device used an implosion-based design, which was ...

While some byproducts recall an idyllic piece of Americana, others remind us that the past is not always so bright and cheerful. Trinitite, created unintentionally during the development of the first ...

The explosion that opened the atomic age more than 70 years ago is helping scientists better understand another dramatic event: the formation of the moon. On July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army detonated the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Manhattan project aimed at producing atomic bombs to compete with Axis countries such as Nazi Germany. The research team led by Robert Oppenheimer, who was in charge of science, will finally conduct ...

Allen Yu, a student from Diamond Bar, Calif., shows examples he found of Trinitite, sand that was transformed into a radioactive green glassy substance by the first atomic bomb test sixty years ago, ...