At 5. 29am on July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world’s first nuclear device at the Trinity test site in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert. The explosion marked the beginning of the ...

Credit: Courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory. In the early hours of July 16, 1945, in a remote part of the New Mexico desert, a group of scientists, engineers and military personnel attended an ...

Recent studies reveal that the fallout from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test impacted a staggering 46 states across the US ...

The Trinity test’s legacy endures in New Mexico as the U.S. moves to expand nuclear weapons production amid health concerns and public distrust.

TRINITY: An Illustrated History of the World's First Atomic Test. By Emily Seyl. University of Chicago Press. 334 pages. $39. From a complex in a remote expanse of New Mexico, a team of scientists led ...

Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, poses in front of the entrance of the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range, the site of the July 16, 1945, Trinity test.

From left: Bernice Gutierrez, Tina Cordova, and Paul Pino are part of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium. The organization advocates for people who were exposed to radioactive fallout from the ...