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 ...

New Mexico Sen. Leo Jaramillo walks into a theater for the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024.

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When the first atomic bomb exploded on July 16, 1945, at 5:29 AM, the world did not immediately change, but it would never be the same again. On July 16, 1945, the immense destructive power of nuclear ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new report says the world’s first atomic bomb test caused generations of southern New Mexico families to suffer from cancer and economic hardship. The report released Friday ...

New Mexicans impacted by the Trinity Test are getting closer to receiving compensation after eight decades of health problems and rare cancers stemming from the world's first atomic explosion. The big ...

Tina Cordova is intimately familiar with the legacy of the atomic bomb. Her hometown, Tularosa, New Mexico, is just thirty-four miles downwind from the Trinity Test Site, where Manhattan Project ...

President Donald Trump instructed the Defense Department to “immediately begin” nuclear weapons testing last week. And that ...

TULAROSA, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico residents living near the site of the first atomic bomb have held their annual demonstration as visitors caravanned into the Trinity Test Site for a tour. The ...

Tina Cordova poses in front of the entrance of White Sands Missile Range where Trinity test site is located, near White Sands, New Mexico, on February 21, 2024. Cordova who is one of five generations ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico on what's now the White Sands Missile Range. About 40 miles away from the Trinity test site, a group of girls at a ...