Trinity Site: 1945–1995. A National Historic Landmark, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs Office

United States. Dept. of the Army

"The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent, beautiful, stupendous, and terrifying. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. The lighting effects beggared description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun."

Brig. Gen. Thomas Farrell