During the final seconds of the countdown, most of the observers in the New Mexico desert laid down with their feet toward a firing tower that rose 100 feet above the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery ...

WEBVTT "the earth trembeled you knowwhen that thing exploded." THE WORLD'S FIRST ATOMIC BOMBEXPLODED AT THE WHITE SANDS MISSLE RANGE "that sucker actually rattled everything." THAT SUCKER WAS ...

Jul. 16--As the first atomic blast lit up the morning sky and scorched a vast desert landscape in south-central New Mexico, the scientists and engineers who had worked on this top-secret weapon felt a ...

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 ...

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In honor of Duke’s Centennial, the Blue Zone’s Blast from the Past series highlights pivotal figures and events in Duke sports history. Next, we look at the 1920 return of Trinity’s football team: It ...

It’s one thing standing in line to watch the blockbuster film “Oppenheimer.” It’s another thing entirely queueing up in a remote desert to experience the location of the film’s most pivotal scene. But ...

It was a small blast by atomic bomb standards. But the detonation of 108 tons of TNT at Trinity Site in Southern New Mexico paved the way for what would happen July 16, 1945, when the world entered ...

SANTA FE, Nex Mexico (Reuters Life!) - As a young American soldier during the Korean War, Jim Madrid remembers visiting Japan in 1950 and strolling amid the rubble left by the U.S. atomic bomb attack ...

FARGO — During the final seconds of the countdown, most of the observers in the New Mexico desert laid down with their feet toward a firing tower that rose 100 feet above the Alamogordo Bombing and ...