How We Came To Grips with the Sun (The Gadget at 05:29:45, July 6, 1945. FINISHED

Finally done after a few weeks of letting it stew...

How We Came To Grips with the Sun (The Gadget at 05:29:45, July 6, 1945.

and a quick blurb for those who don't know...the "Gadget", as it would come to be called, was the first ever atomic bomb tested in the "trinity" test. This same bomb design would later be used to build the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, Fat Man, the second of two bombs dropped to end WWII. The trinity test went off without a hitch at 5:29.45 am on July 6th, 1945, hurtling the world head first into the atomic age. This painting is a representation of that very moment in time, 16 milliseconds before the picture below was taken.

The Trinity Explosion 16 milliseconds after detonation. The fireball is 600 ft wide and the small black dots along the bottom of the horizon are trees. 

The Gadget.