At 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945, the age of nuclear weapons began. That’s when the world’s first atomic bomb was tested at what is now known as Trinity Site at White Sands Missile ...

Trinity Site is a National Historic Landmark just 96 miles northeast of Las Cruces. At 5:30 a.m. Mountain War Time, the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated there on Monday, July 16, 1945. The ...

For those who know the story, it rained all night July 15. Scientists and Army officers waited and worried. In Potsdam, President Harry Truman also waited, impatient for the outcome. For some, the ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – On this day, 80 years ago, the United States Military tested the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site here in New Mexico. An event that would forever change the nature of warfare.

TULAROSA, NM- The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) held a peaceful demonstration on Saturday, April 1 behind the Tularosa high school football field to recognize New Mexicans impacted by ...

On Sunday, July 15, 1945, at around 11 pm Mountain War Time, New York Times reporter and in-house Manhattan Project historian (or propagandist, some would say) William L. Laurence joined the project’s ...