Trinity Photos Bring the First Atomic Explosion Into Sharp Focus (opens in new tab)

A new book about the Trinity test, the world’s first atomic explosion, presents startlingly vivid views of the event. Based on a 20-year effort to restore and release hundreds of photographs taken during the Manhattan Project, the book, simply titled Trinity, is a treasure trove of some 350 of these images, along with maps, memos, diagrams, blueprints, and pictures of lab-notebook pages. Authored by Emily Seyl, a writer and editor at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s National Security Research...