Trinity Site’s atmosphere during an open ... the mysterious green-glass rock that rained down from the bomb’s blast. Ominous fence signs remind guests that it’s against the law to remove ...

Oppenheimer and the scientists he recruited to develop the bomb at Los Alamos were well aware of the potential for harm to civilians from the Trinity blast, but the blockbuster movie ...

Courtesy of Barbara Kent The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot ...

For the Trinity atomic bomb blast, Fisher’s effects department created large and small explosions with gasoline, propane, and magnesium and aluminum powder to create the flash and overwhelming ...

At 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the Manhattan Project’s Trinity atomic bomb detonated, unleashing a 19-kiloton explosion, melting asphalt and sand into green glass and sending radioactive ...

I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on ... 96 feet directly above my head. Upon detonation, it produced enough energy to compress the ground ...

By Nicolas Rapold Witnesses to the Trinity test, the inaugural atomic bomb experiment in 1945 portrayed in “Oppenheimer,” described the billowing blast in various ways. It was said to resemble ...