Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.
Forgotten photos of the Trinity detonation show the immensity of the project ...
The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...
Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...
An unusual crystal created by America’s first nuclear bomb test could help scientists understand a structure needed for ...
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 ...