In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...

The world changed 70 years ago Thursday, when scientists in New Mexico successfully tested the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo.Though the success of the Trinity Test is a scientific milestone, some ...

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

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

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity Site — now in the northern part of White Sands ...

The Trinity Test of 1945 was the first full-scale, real-world test of a nuclear weapon. On July 16, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site on ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On July 16, 1945, the U.S. secretly tested the world’s first nuclear weapon in New Mexico. Now known as the Trinity Test, it poisoned thousands of nearby New Mexicans. Last year, ...

In July 1945, as J. Robert Oppenheimer and the other researchers of the Manhattan Project prepared to test their brand-new atomic bomb in a New Mexico desert, they knew relatively little about how ...

Better late than never? Nearly 70 years after the Manhattan Project conducted the world’s first atomic bomb test, the National Cancer Institute will soon begin a new investigation into the effects of ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — When a flash of light beamed from the arid New Mexico desert early on July 16, 1945, residents of the historic Hispanic village of Tularosa felt windows shake and heard dishes fall.

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, ...