One of the most important projects of the 20th century was also one of the most daring and destructive, and it reshaped the ...

Code named Trinity, the detonation released the energy equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT and was hot enough to turn sand into glass. More than 70 years later, researchers led by James Day — at ...

At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb ... tons of TNT; and this is ...

Visible effects greater than Trinity test. Target Hiroshima.' Reporters sit in the Briefing Room. They are informed that a bomb with the explosive force of 20,000 tonnes of TNT has been dropped on ...

The film tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at Trinity site in New Mexico. Featuring candid ...