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 ... A massive cloud was formed which ...

(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 ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos In 1932, James Chadwick discovered the neutron, a small atomic particle with mass but no charge.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Former atomic weapons workers in New Mexico are being recognized for their heroism and patriotism ahead ...

On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age, with the successful ... and was detonated in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Overseeing the project was US ...