"We have made a thing, a most terrible weapon, that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world." Here is a video of the first nuclear bomb test: Read next ...

2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history ...

On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic weapon was tested in New Mexico in the United States. This plutonium atomic bomb was called Trinity and it marked the beginning of the nuclear age.

Director/producer Peter Kuran meticulously restored previously classified government footage of U.S. atomic bomb tests using a new, Academy Award winning process known as RCI. The result is this ...

“The film approaches how tragic and brutal nuclear war is indirectly, without showing any footage, which may be ... of the world’s first atomic bomb test. “That scene alone was terrifying ...