Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. On the evening of July 16, 1945, President Harry S. Truman was at ...

Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists have taken to the streets of Cambridge in a dramatic "fireball" protest. The environmental group gathered outside Trinity College yesterday (October 3) with flags ...

The Trinity test, conducted on July 16, 1945, was the first nuclear test ever conducted in human history, and it led to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the nuclear arms race during ...

An international research team identified an unprecedented set of atomic structures in rare red fragments of Trinitite—the glassy residue formed at the site of the Trinity nuclear bomb test—reporting ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2019. We are republishing it as a public service on this 75th anniversary of the Trinity test. For the past several years, the controversy over ...

This is a frame of the 'Trinity' fireball, .025 seconds after detonation. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

Trinity Site is a National Historic Landmark just 96 miles northeast of Las Cruces. At 5:30 a.m. Mountain War Time, the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated there on Monday, July 16, 1945. The ...