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White Sands Missile Range celebrates 80 years of trailblazing innovation in support of national defense
On July 9, 2025, White Sands Missile Range will celebrate its 80th anniversary, marking 80 years as the nation's premier ...
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White Sands Missile Range: Inside the Trinity Atomic Bomb Test Site
This visit to the historic Trinity Site traces the origins of the atomic age. Though the Schmidt/McDonald assembly house was ...
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Army Astronaut takes command of White Sands Missile Range
White Sands Missile Range welcomed a new commander during a Change of Command ceremony as outgoing commander Brig. Gen.
'We didn't know what it was': Reflections pour in on 80th anniversary of Trinity Test blast
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 ...
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Trinity Test, 80 years later in New Mexico
The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...
Trinity Site’s first atomic rehearsal blast occurred quietly on May 7, 1945
The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site ...
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NASA to launch SNIFS, Sun’s next trailblazing spectator
July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the energy and ...
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Praying That the Camp Mystic Families Find Meaning in the Madness
On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico on what's now the White Sands Missile ...
First atomic bomb explosion has lasting impact on New Mexico
Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.
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80 Years After the Trinity Nuke Test, We’re Still Living an Atomic Nightmare
We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.
'Growing, diversifying and modernizing': 80 year after Trinity blast, nuclear weapons remain a threat
It’s a peaceful time of day at 5:29 a.m. Quiet. In that predawn moment 80 years ago, Allen Sánchez said, his grandfather was milking cows in Tomé. A light appeared as the first test of a nuclear ...
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Australia Hosts First Live Fire of SM-6 at Target Ship Outside the U.S.
The U.S. Army’s 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force conducted in the opening days of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025 the first Mid-Range Capability live fire ...