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White Sands Missile Range will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Trinity Site test, marking a new era in scientific ...
The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...
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 ...
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.
This visit to the historic Trinity Site traces the origins of the atomic age. Though the Schmidt/McDonald assembly house was ...
On July 9, 2025, White Sands Missile Range will celebrate its 80th anniversary, marking 80 years as the nation's premier ...
U.S. officials have said a strategy of deterrence may have to shift to accommodate increasingly adversarial relationships with nuclear countries.
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 ...
Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.
Federal agents arrested a man who lives at the White Sands Missile Range. According to the range's public affairs specialist, the man arrested is a civilian.According to base officials, agents ...
The Trinity Site is about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on the northern part of the sprawling White Sands Missile Range.
The missile range was fined hundreds of thousands of dollars after finding a fire suppression system at a hazardous waste storage building wasn’t functioning, apparently for months on end.