Barbara Kent and a dozen other 13-year-old girls believed nuclear fallout from the Manhattan Project's Trinity test was summertime snow.

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the Southern New Mexico desert. The test, which sent a giant mushroom cloud ...

Myrriah Gómez is from the Pojoaque Valley in Northern New Mexico, an associate professor in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico and author. (Courtesy of Myrriah Gómez) July 16, 2025 ...

Berlyn Brixner said he was never told the new detonation time, but seconds before the blast his camera powered up, so he knew ...

In the pre-dawn dark of July 16, 1945, a searing flash lit up the New Mexico desert. A shockwave followed, rippling outward across the silent plains. This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear ...

This article is part of a series that will delve into the history of the Trinity Site Test, which marked its 80th anniversary on July 16, 2025, and ...

Sandy Charles looks up at a statue of Gen. Leslie Groves as another of J. Robert Oppenheimer looks on, Aug. 16, 2025 at Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos. Beginnings of New ...

We learn of his efforts to honor those who made the Manhattan Project a success, while Oak Ridge begins its transition to peacetime.