"We were the first people exposed to radiation anyplace in the world due to an atomic bomb," said Tina Cordova, co-founder of ...

Historic blast's legacy: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test produced red trinitite, a glassy material now yielding unprecedented mineral discoveries. Unique crystal found: Scientists identified a ...

A team of geologists at the University of Florence, Italy, identified a novel clathrate that formed during the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert. It's a material never ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...