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 ...

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 ...

The day of my visit to Trinity, frame-by-frame photos of the moments after the bomb’s detonation were arranged against the fence. Here’s how I described it in my book: At 0.006 seconds there ...

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 ...

It’s one thing standing in line to watch the blockbuster film “Oppenheimer.” It’s another thing entirely queueing up in a remote desert to experience the location of the film’s most ...