At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...
Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.
Trinitite was born on July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., when a plutonium device codenamed “Gadget” detonated atop a test tower nearly a hundred feet in the air at an Air Force base near Alamogordo, New ...