A bright, blinding light flashed above New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. The thunderous roar that followed jolted 14-year-old Jess Gililland awake on the porch of ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. Even after the renowned physicist Hans ...

A 100-ton explosive test occurred at Trinity Site on May 7, 1945, as a rehearsal for the atomic bomb test. The 100-ton test was largely unnoticed, unlike the July 16 atomic bomb test which was seen as ...

Oct. 14—In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. July 16 marks the 80th anniversary of an event that changed the world forever: the Trinity atomic test, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Decades ago, scientists in New Mexico worked tirelessly to discover and test the world’s most destructive weapon – the nuclear bomb. Its effects on the state have been ...

SOCORRO COUNTY — A crowd of activists, politicians, journalists and New Mexico Department of Transportation employees gathered on the side of U.S. 380 Wednesday to unveil a new sign commemorating the ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE — Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico ...

TULAROSA — Mary Riseley walked through glowing rows of luminarias looking for her mother’s name at a vigil for New Mexico downwinders Wednesday, 80 years to the day after the first nuclear bomb test.