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.

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

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.

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.