Sidetrack Adventures Inside Trinity Atomic Bomb Test Site - White Sands Missile Range Posted: April 7, 2025 | Last updated: April 7, 2025 At the heart of the New Mexico desert lies the site where ...

The first atomic bomb ever exploded was ... their secret laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, 230 miles south, to a place known to the scientists as Trinity in a stretch of southern New Mexico ...

At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb ... from the site -- he overheard ...

A new exhibit on nuclear weapons opens Wednesday at the University of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library as part of a nationwide ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York in 1904. He was the son of first-generation Jewish immigrants who came to America ...

Early on the morning of July 16, 1945, the deserts of New Mexico exploded in a colossal, unspeakably brilliant fireball, ushering in the nuclear age at a test site called Trinity. For years ...

Oscar-nominated 'Oppenheimer' suggests that the New Mexico test site for the atomic bomb was deserted before scientists arrived there. But a documentary called 'First We Bombed New Mexico' sheds ...

As bulldozers arrived on the New Mexico campus, she had her first glimpse ... The Making of the Atomic Bomb. “Single men and women sponsored dorm parties fueled with tanks of punch made potent ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at Trinity site in New Mexico. Featuring candid interviews with several ...

Black and white photographic print, mounted on card, 2nd of 8, showing the July 1945 New Mexico atomic bomb explosion test, being an enlargement from a negative presented by Gaumont British ...