Deep in the New Mexico desert sits a military testing range tied to some of the most consequential weapons and aerospace ...
July 16 marks the anniversary of the Trinity test—the world’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Conducted in the New Mexico desert as a critical part of the Manhattan Project, the explosion lasted ...
When the world’s first atomic bomb sent searing light across the Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, Anastacio Cordova of Tularosa was only 4 years old — a boy who drank water from cisterns and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 81 years ago, the first nuclear bomb exploded. The Trinity test, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project in the New ...