Tensions were running high at the Trinity site in the early morning hours of July 16, 1945 on the outskirts of Alamogordo, in the western U.S. state of New Mexico.After a thunderstorm delayed the testing of the world's first nuclear weapon, another "sun" suddenly lit up the night sky -- a flash so brilliant it could not be viewed with the naked eye, accompanied by a powerful explosion unleashing radiation that spread out in all directions across the desert landscape.The first nuclear test in history was a success, thus birthing the dawn of the nuclear age.Looking up at the huge mushroom clo…READ FULL ARTICLE
