The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site simulation explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945. The ...

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 is ...

July 16 marked the 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb explosion, at what the bomb’s creator, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, called the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The harsh desert terrain had ...

At Trinity Site in New Mexico can walk among the radioactive remains of the place where the United States introduced the world to the Atomic Age.

TOMORROW, 80 YEARS SINCE THE WORLD’S FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS DETONATED IN NEW MEXICO. CONSIDERED INSTRUMENTAL IN THE EFFORTS TO END WORLD WAR TWO, THE TRINITY TEST DEVASTATED LOCAL COMMUNITIES.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – On this day, 80 years ago, the United States Military tested the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site here in New Mexico. An event that would forever change the nature of warfare.

On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later, the University of Chicago — the site of the first self-sustaining nuclear ...

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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 ...