This color photograph of the test was taken by Jack Aeby. On July 16, 1945, at 5:30 am, the first atomic bomb in history was detonated at what is now White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The ...

Jul. 14—The Trinity Test was the first nuclear explosion in history. On July 16, 1945, Los Alamos scientists set off the first atomic bomb in New Mexico's desert. That test is part of a legacy of ...

Color photo of the mushroom cloud from the Trinity Test in 1945, taken by Jack Aeby Eighty years ago Wednesday, on July 16, 1945, the world changed forever when the first atomic bomb was detonated in ...

FARGO — During the final seconds of the countdown, most of the observers in the New Mexico desert laid down with their feet toward a firing tower that rose 100 feet above the Alamogordo Bombing and ...

At approximately 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexican desert. It was bright, hot, and loud. Scientists and military personnel crouched nearby in ...

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," released July 21, fixes its gaze on the titular J. Robert Oppenheimer, who coordinated the Manhattan Project, which ultimately led to the US using two nuclear ...

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, ...

The nation conducted its last explosive nuclear test in 1992, after a series of treaties limited testing capabilities.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After years of research, the National Cancer Institute was poised Tuesday to finally release a series of papers related to radiation doses and cancer risks resulting from the U.S.

New Mexico was ground zero for the world's first atom bomb explosion, but the "downwinder" farmers and ranchers living near the Trinity test site, and the Navajo miners who dug the uranium used in the ...

This July 16, 1945, photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, New Mexico. (AP) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Transported in the backseat of a blacked-out Plymouth sedan ...

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