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

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 ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16 ... On July 13, 1945, at a site called Trinity 100 km northwest of Alamogordo, a plutonium bomb was assembled and brought ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico was on July 16, 1945 and on August 6, 1945 Little Boy was detonated above Hiroshima. After WWII he became chief adviser to the newly-created Atomic Energy ...

where scientists created the first atomic weapons, and the Trinity Site to the south, where they tested the first nuclear bomb. Dating to 1969, National Museum of Nuclear Science & History tracks ...

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 ...