New Mexicans claim ... first ever test of an atomic bomb in New Mexico. But a group called the Downwinders -- local residents whose homes were downwind of the blast site -- aren't celebrating ...

This is not a partisan issue," says Cordova, a cancer survivor whose family lived near the Trinity Test site in ... in the ...

(Zach Cusson / Scripps News) Scientists detonated the first atomic bomb in July 1945 in a remote desert area in south central New Mexico, a location later nicknamed the Trinity Site. The bomb ...

At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb ... from the site -- he overheard ...

New Mexico’s famous Trinity Site will once again open up to visitors on Saturday. The open house allows people to visit the site where the world’s first atomic bomb exploded on July 16 ...

Oscar-nominated 'Oppenheimer' suggests that the New Mexico test site for the atomic bomb was deserted before scientists arrived there. But a documentary called 'First We Bombed New Mexico' sheds ...

Early on the morning of July 16, 1945, the deserts of New Mexico exploded in a colossal, unspeakably brilliant fireball, ushering in the nuclear age at a test site called Trinity. For years ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at Trinity site in New Mexico. Featuring candid interviews with several ...

Know Atom Bomb science to understand Christopher Nolan's movie 3)In November 1942, Groves approved Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico as a secret site ... first atomic test device. ‘Trinity ...