The 80th Anniversary Trinity Test Observance and Open House scheduled for later this month has been canceled, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) announced on Thursday, Oct. 9. It’s where Los Alamos ...

The 80th Anniversary Trinity Test open house, originally scheduled for Saturday, has been canceled, officials say. The historic site will now only be open to the public on the third Saturday in ...

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...

A bright, blinding light flashed above New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. The thunderous roar that followed jolted 14-year-old Jess Gililland awake on the porch of ...

Color photo of the mushroom cloud from the Trinity Test in 1945, taken by Jack Aeby Eighty years ago Wednesday, on July 16, 1945, the world changed forever when the first atomic bomb was detonated in ...

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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity Site — now in the northern part of White Sands ...

The Trinity Test was the first nuclear explosion in history. On July 16, 1945, Los Alamos scientists set off the first atomic bomb in New Mexico’s desert. That test is part of a legacy of weapons ...