Fusing the desert's quartz and feldspar sandstone with bits of the ... When the blast wave reflected from the ground, it met up with the original wave and formed the stem of the mushroom cloud.

Most Nevada residents, however, will never see the cloud because the test will take place in the desert -- far away from population centers. The closest city, Las Vegas, is about 90 miles away ...

Scientists and other workers rig the world's first atomic bomb to raise it up onto a 100-foot tower at the Trinity Test Site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. (AP Photo/File ) ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A huge non-nuclear explosion expected to generate a mushroom cloud in the Nevada desert will meet state air quality regulations, officials said Wednesday. State regulators have ...

But it was the massive mushroom clouds from the above-ground nuclear blasts that captured the public’s imagination throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.

In the pre-dawn dark of July 16, 1945, a searing flash lit up the New Mexico desert. A shockwave followed, rippling outward across the silent plains. This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear ...

But it was the massive mushroom clouds from the above-ground nuclear blasts that captured the public’s imagination throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.

An underground hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park sent visitors running for their lives Tuesday morning as a massive black mushroom cloud of steam and debris rose hundreds of feet … ...

Footage of a "mushroom cloud" filmed at a beach near Florida went viral this week, leading to speculation that a "massive explosion" had occurred near the coast of the Sunshine State. The video ...

A photo of the desert shaggy mane mushroom, posted on the Death Valley National Park Facebook page on October 20, 2022. The mushroom may grow throughout Death Valley this year following rare ...