in the middle of the desert on the morning of July 16, America detonated the world's first atomic bomb. The explosion vaporized the steel tower, sent a massive shockwave across the desert sand ...

Trinitite, created unintentionally during the development of the first atomic ... bomb test near Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Also called ‘atomsite’ and ‘Alamogordo glass ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos In 1932, James Chadwick discovered the neutron, a small atomic particle with mass but no charge.

Photo: Corbis via Getty Images Background: On July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, the U.S. Army detonated an atomic bomb ...