At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.

Smiling Buddha, India first nuclear test completes 51 years. Codenamed 'Smiling Buddha' was launched on May 18, 1974 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. (Image credit: X/@DKShivakumar) ...

A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare radioactive mineral called trinitite.