{"product_id":"trinity-an-illustrated-history-of-the-worlds-first-atomic-test-emily-seyl-hardcover","title":"Trinity: An Illustrated History of the World's First Atomic Test -- Emily Seyl, Hardcover","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Seyl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.35h x 11.27w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226848402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/27\/2026 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Emily Seyl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49614995947748,"sku":"9780226848402","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780226848402.jpg?v=1786261379","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/trinity-an-illustrated-history-of-the-worlds-first-atomic-test-emily-seyl-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}