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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 ...

Following a five-hour drive east from Tucson, the New Mexico morning desert sky cast itself in Robin egg blue. The heavens were salted with feathery trails of see-through lacy clouds drifting to the ...

On July 16, 1945, and in the days and weeks that followed, newspapers in America missed what may well have been the scoop of the first half of the 20th century: The birth of the atomic bomb in the ...

Three observation bunkers were established 10,000 yards from ground zero for the Trinity Site Test. Key leaders, including Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, observed from ...

Eighty years after the Trinity Test brought nuclear fallout to their communities, New Mexico residents living downstream of the test may finally be eligible for long-sought reparations. In the early ...

The Trinity Test in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The image shows a mushroom cloud after 10 seconds. Credit: U.S. GOVERMENT It was 80 years ago on July 16 when a mysterious flash of light ...

World’s First Nuclear Blast Left Behind a Mysterious Form of Matter — And Scientists Still Can’t Explain What It Is Sometimes, the most remarkable discoveries come from unexpected places. In one such ...

Representatives of various groups, including one that earned a Nobel Peace Prize, gathered at an interfaith event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to call for nuclear disarmament worldwide. Hosted by the ...

Thousands of dollars could come to New Mexicans who grew sick after working in uranium mines or after above ground nuclear tests, but advocates say there is more work to be done and exactly how many ...