First Nuclear bomb test 75 years ago July 16, 1945

NUCLEAR RISK

In their own words: Trinity at 75

Seventy-five years ago today, the first nuclear bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Eyewitness excerpts offer a new retelling of the Trinity test, woven entirely from words that more than a dozen of the project’s protagonists first published in the Bulletin. Read more.