Visitors tour New Mexico atomic site in likely record attendance fueled by 'Oppenheimer' fanfareRead full article: Visitors tour New Mexico atomic site in likely record attendance fueled by 'Oppenheimer' fanfare Visitors have lined to tour the southern New Mexico site where the world’s first atomi...
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Gallup - a town in northwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border Las Cruces - a town in southern New Mexico on the Rio Grande Los Alamos - a town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced Roswell - a tow...
Historic photo of the Trinity Test site outside Alamogordo where New Mexico’s first nuclear bomb was tested. Photo c NPS On the morning of July 16, 1945, the world shook from the first Trinity Site atomic bomb test blast. The nuclear detonation test of “The Gadget” as it was known,...
New Mexico - Art, Culture, History: Many writers and artists have been influenced by New Mexico’s history and culture. Among those who have drawn on the state’s rich cultural heritage in their work are natives Rudolfo A. Anaya, Simon Ortiz, and Leslie
The New Mexico Museum of Space History, located in Alamogordo, encourages its visitors to “discover the cradle of America’s space program.” Its exhibits and events include tours of the Trinity Atomic Bomb site, Living and Working in Space, Looking Out, Looking Back, Space Science and New ...
The first atomic bomb was exploded at Trinity Site on the White Sands Missile Range in 1945. From 1943 to 1945, during World War II, leading scientists worked at Los Alamos, New Mexico, on a top-secret project to develop the bomb. Today, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory ...
When an atomic bomb was dropped from an American plane on Hiroshima, Japan, newspapers and radio stations all over America told of the test of the bomb in New Mexico. Almost everybody was surprised to learn where the bomb had been made and tested; the deserts of the Southwest had hidden ...
New Mexico has also been home to numerous country music record labels since the 1950s. Space, Science, and Technology Government research during the second world war made New Mexico a center for science and technology. Project Y, the laboratory that designed the first atomic bomb for the Manhat...