Deep in the New Mexico desert sits a military testing range tied to some of the most consequential weapons and aerospace ...

At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, briefly became a furnace unlike any on Earth’s surface. The world’s first nuclear bomb test vaporized steel, copper, cables, ...

When the world’s first atomic bomb sent searing light across the Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, Anastacio Cordova of Tularosa was only 4 years old — a boy who drank water from cisterns and ...

Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...

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