Visitors flocked to the New Mexico site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated, on October 21. The Trinity Site is open to the public twice a year.
The Manhattan Project ushered in not only the nuclear age but the Anthropocene, the epoch in geological time that denotes humans' transformation of the Earth's chemistry, climate and biodiversity.
As millions of people head to the theaters this weekend to see Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer, a new study has been released that tracks the radioactive devastation wrought by the U.S. government’s first nuclear weapons test. The “Trinity” test, as it was secretly known, was the first nuclear detonation by the American military, occurring on July 16, 1945. That test resulted in the distribution of radioactive deposits to 46 U.S. states, as well as to parts of Canada and Mexico, the new res