Maj. Gen. Groves and J. R. Oppenheimer view the base of the steel tower used for the first atomic bomb test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on Sept. 11, 1945.

On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated near Socorro, New Mexico-and 80 years later, we're still feeling the ...

Testing world's first atomic bomb . On July 16, scientists from the Manhattan Project conducted the first test of an implosive-type plutonium bomb, called Trinity.

Still, the discussions and calculations persisted long after the Trinity test. In 1946, three Manhattan project scientists, ... How Oppenheimer weighed the odds of an atomic bomb test ending Earth.

In July 1945, as J. Robert Oppenheimer and the other researchers of the Manhattan Project prepared to test their brand-new atomic bomb in a New Mexico desert, they knew relatively little about how ...

The people of New Mexico were the first victims of the atomic bomb, the result of the Manhattan Project’s Trinity Test on July 16, 1945.

A secret government initiative, called The Manhattan Project, saw the creation of the atomic bomb under J. Robert Oppenheimer. Two atomic bombs were dropped on Japanese cities to end WWII.

The nuclear fallout from the Manhattan Project's test, codenamed Trinity, of a plutonium-implosion device in July 1945 reached 46 states and crossed into Mexico and Canada within days of ...

On This Day: The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb. During WWII, there was growing concern that German scientists had discovered how to split a uranium atom.

It turns out there was an “unlikely” chance the first atomic bomb could have ignited the atmosphere — which didn’t stop the Manhattan Project.

July 14-16 gathering to create recommendations for policymakers and leaders to reduce the threat of nuclear war ...