Brodie J.F. The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico

University of Nebraska Press, 2023. — 340 p. — ISBN 978-1496232976.On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in south-central New Mexico.Preface
Introduction
The Trinity Test
Dispossessions
Building the Test Site
Post-Test Events at the Trinity Site, 1946–67
The Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Trinity Site
The Trinity Radiation and Its Afterlives
Historical Preservation of the Trinity Site