The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site simulation explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945. The ...

Jul. 14—The Trinity Test was the first nuclear explosion in history. On July 16, 1945, Los Alamos scientists set off the first atomic bomb in New Mexico's desert. That test is part of a legacy of ...

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Tina Cordova poses in front of the entrance of White Sands Missile Range where Trinity test site is located, near White Sands, New Mexico, on February 21, 2024. Cordova who is one of five generations ...

Following a five-hour drive east from Tucson, the New Mexico morning desert sky cast itself in Robin egg blue. The heavens were salted with feathery trails of see-through lacy clouds drifting to the ...

New Mexicans impacted by the Trinity Test are getting closer to receiving compensation after eight decades of health problems and rare cancers stemming from the world's first atomic explosion. The big ...

TULAROSA, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico residents living near the site of the first atomic bomb have held their annual demonstration as visitors caravanned into the Trinity Test Site for a tour. The ...