Trinity Test

“Jornada del Muerto desert, July 16, 1945, 5:29 AM. The first atomic detonation rises in a churning fireball over the New Mexico desert. Foreground shows Oppenheimer and Groves watching from the S-10,000 observation bunker through smoked goggles; midground reveals the steel tower vaporizing and a shockwave racing outward through scrub; the Jemez and San Andres mountains glow brighter than midday under a sky split by an artificial sun.”