The 80th Anniversary Trinity Test open house, originally scheduled for Saturday, has been canceled, officials say. The ...

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site is ...

The 80th Anniversary Trinity Test Observance and Open House scheduled for later this month has been canceled, White Sands ...

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 ...

After discussing the emergence of nuclear physics, Close goes on to talk about the Allies’ development of the nuclear bomb. A ...

White Sands Missile Range, DoD's largest, fully-instrumented, open air range, provides America's Armed Forces, allies, partners, and defense technology innovators with the world's premiere research, ...

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When the first atomic bomb exploded on July 16, 1945, at 5:29 AM, the world did not immediately change, but it would never be the same again. On July 16, 1945, the immense destructive power of nuclear ...

The first time Americans had ever heard of the atomic bomb was hours after the U.S. bombed Hiroshima in August 1945. But it was tested a month before that in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

Tina Cordova is intimately familiar with the legacy of the atomic bomb. Her hometown, Tularosa, New Mexico, is just thirty-four miles downwind from the Trinity Test Site, where Manhattan Project ...

For most of his life, Paul Pino believed his community had dodged the bullet when it came to nuclear fallout. It wasn’t until he’d retired from teaching high school history that he learned that his ...