The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were ...

On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of ...

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...

More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons ...

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...

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

Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico Catholic bishops, stood poised to venture into the White Sands Missile Range with plans to pray for peace and the ...

Thursday’s Top Stories Suspect in shooting in Ranchos De Taos is taken into custody Forest road rule in New Mexico faces ...

“It was a quirk of history that at that moment the energy of the atom was engineered to kill,” Schmidt told The National Interest. “The longer legacy of that day will be much greater than ‘the bomb.’ ...

Congress earlier this month finally got around to making New Mexico fallout victims of the first test of an atomic bomb and ...

Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.

Hosted by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, the group observed the 80th anniversary of the first ever atomic bomb test that took ...