{"product_id":"trinity-an-illustrated-history-of-the-worlds-first-atomic-test-hardcover","title":"Trinity: An Illustrated History of the World's First Atomic Test - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily Seyl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlan B. Carr\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003ePaul Ziomek\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplore the scientific crescendo of the Manhattan Project through newly contextualized and never-before-seen photographs from Los Alamos National Laboratory's legacy collections--some just declassified.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-one days before the world learned of the atomic bomb through its wartime use against Japan, a team of scientists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer detonated the first nuclear device on a remote stretch of New Mexico desert, in an operation codenamed Trinity. Both a military proof test and an elaborate, well-documented scientific experiment, the Trinity shot on July 16, 1945, brought under the control of humankind a new fire: the energy of the atom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this expertly curated journey through the beginning of the atomic age, hundreds of carefully restored photographs, still frames, and once-secret documents bring new and vivid focus to a watershed moment in science and history. Written for all to understand, \u003ci\u003eTrinity\u003c\/i\u003e weaves steadily through subplots and surprises set against the evolving, looming backdrop of a world at war. It shadows the humans and hardware at work in the rugged landscape of the test operation; dissects a fiery mushroom cloud unfurling frame by frame, frozen in time; and follows soldiers, scientists, and two atomic bombs across the Pacific Ocean to Tinian Island, onto the strike planes \u003ci\u003eEnola Gay\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBockscar\u003c\/i\u003e, and to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two Japanese cities devastated on August 6 and 9, 1945. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInviting readers into the clandestine spaces where a new era began--behind the cameras, the bunker doors, the gates and guard posts--\u003ci\u003eTrinity\u003c\/i\u003e strives, grieves, celebrates, and ponders. It artfully captures that extraordinary summer when scientists invented urgently in the waning months of the \"before\"--and the tension between violence and progress, hope and fear, that persists into the after.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Seyl\u003c\/b\u003e is a science writer and editor at Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.11 x 11.35 x 11.27 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 25, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45584831905836,"sku":"9780226848402","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/a9RmbWMJ4e9780226848402.webp?v=1780253249","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/trinity-an-illustrated-history-of-the-worlds-first-atomic-test-hardcover","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}