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 ...

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE — Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico Catholic bishops, stood poised to venture into the White Sands Missile Range with plans to pray ...

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 ...

The Army has canceled the April 6 open house for the public to visit the New Mexico site of the Trinity atomic bomb blast for lack of funds following a crowd surge last October brought on by the ...

When the first atomic weapon exploded with unearthly force in the scrub desert of New Mexico on July 16, 1945, the Army was immediately faced with an unusual problem: How do you keep the biggest ...

* 'Downwinder' thought he was seeing end of the world * He and other New Mexicans received no advance warning * Cancer rates high in surrounding counties By Dennis J. Carroll (Refiles to fix typo in ...

July 16 marked the 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb explosion, at what the bomb’s creator, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, called the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The harsh desert terrain had ...

The mushroom cloud forms seconds after the Trinity atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945. "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." That paraphrased line from the Bhagavad Gita crossed Robert ...