The 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity Site — now in the northern part of White Sands Missile Range — took place ...

The thunder of a solid rocket booster hurtling a scientific payload to the edge of space shook the sides of buildings on White Sands Missile Range Friday. The sounding rocket carried the first space t ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico on what's now the White Sands Missile ...

The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...

We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.

Downwinders and other survivors of NM's nuclear legacy mark the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, amid RECA expansion ...

Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico Catholic bishops, stood poised to venture into the White Sands Missile Range with plans to pray for peace and the ...

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...

“It was a quirk of history that at that moment the energy of the atom was engineered to kill,” Schmidt told The National Interest. “The longer legacy of that day will be much greater than ‘the bomb.’ ...

Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.

White Sands Missile Range will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Trinity Site test, marking a new era in scientific ...

July 16 is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in 1945, 12 young girls attending a summer camp in Ruidoso, New Mexico, were jolted out of their bunks ...