In the site's early days, plutonium would be sent from Hanford to the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where Manhattan ...

Image via Galactic Stone Whereas Fordite kept growing back for decades, all Trinitite comes from a single event — the Trinity nuclear bomb test near ... Trinitite at the site today, most of ...

After the Trinity test, she joined several of the top Manhattan Project scientists in signing a petition that urged the military to demonstrate the bomb’s destructive capability rather than drop ...

The “Trinity” test, as it was secretly known, was the first nuclear detonation by the American military, occurring on July 16, 1945. That test resulted in the distribution of radioactive ...

but the Manhattan Project site chief sought to downplay the danger to manage public perception of such weapons, his grandson said. Working as a radiologist during the Trinity test in New Mexico ...

Those bombs were developed as part of the Manhattan Project atomic weapons ... of the first ever explosive test of a nuclear bomb, code-named Trinity. The White House released a message from ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...