Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.

One portion of a gargantuan plan to modernize the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, costing $1.5 trillion over the next twenty ...

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...

India can make a plutonium nuclear bomb, said Pakistan’s arms control adviser, raising questions over India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor in Kalpakkam. The statement came after India confirmed a ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration finds plutonium production at Savannah River Site will have no impact on ...

Experts warn any new Iran deal must ban plutonium reprocessing and expose covert pathways to nuclear weapons, citing risks ...

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure ...

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...