This is where it all began—the world’s first nuclear explosion. Twice a year, visitors can stand where history turned ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist known as the “father of the atomic bomb ... 2024, Trinity Site again opens for a single day. Millions of colorful New Mexico wildflowers will ...

While the lore surrounding the atomic bomb has become pop culture fodder, it was part of a painful reality for residents who lived downwind of Trinity Site ... We Bombed New Mexico,” made ...

(Zach Cusson / Scripps News) Scientists detonated the first atomic bomb in July 1945 in a remote desert area in south central New Mexico, a location later nicknamed the Trinity Site. The bomb ...

Thousands of visitors are expected to descend Saturday on the southern New Mexico site where the world's first atomic bomb was detonated ... Oppenheimer.” Trinity Site, a designated National ...

A caution sign warns of radioactive materials at Trinity Site in New Mexico back in 2008 ... physicist known as the “father of the atomic bomb,” led his Manhattan Project team to Trinity ...

While the lore surrounding the atomic bomb has become pop culture fodder, it was part of a painful reality for residents who lived downwind of Trinity Site ... We Bombed New Mexico,” made ...

He is looking for plutonium from the Trinity bomb test. Scripps News followed Dr. Michael Ketterer as he collected dust and dirt samples to analyze. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays ...

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. (AP) — Visitors lined up Saturday to tour the southern New Mexico site where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated ... at the Trinity Site, a designated ...