The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory study shows that the formation of radioactive fallout is more complex than some ...

Historic blast yields crystal: Researchers found a previously unknown calcium–copper–silicon clathrate in debris from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test, the first of its kind from a nuclear explosion.

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

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.

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.

Footage shows the plane erupt into flames as shocked onlookers watch on NEW video has captured the moment one of Putin’s nuke bombers plummets to the ground bursting into flames in a new humiliating ...