At 5:30 a.m. mountain war time on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon detonated over a flat, arid stretch of New Mexico desert. The Trinity test, as it was code-named, confirmed that an ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the scientific effort that created the world’s first atomic bomb during World War II. The Trinity test in 1945 produced an explosion equal to nearly 25,000 tons of TNT, ...

New Mexico chaptered Senate Memorial 27 on Feb. 25, directing certain state agencies to help New Mexicans exposed to ...

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. That first-ever use of an atomic weapon killed an estimated 140,000 people in all, most of whom were civilians. Three ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The world’s first nuclear device detonation on July 16, 1945, over New Mexico had consequences that extend far beyond warfare, affecting steel production and scientific ...

State testing scores for Trinity schools seem to show few similarities and depending on which district’s scores are looked at they can be as much as 20 percentage points higher or lower than the state ...

SAN ANTONIO – Trinity University will travel to face No. 17 Berry College in the third round of the NCAA Division III football playoffs Saturday at noon, with the winner advancing to the national ...

Trinity County students are faring better than students in neighboring counties for two years in a row, according to publicly available state testing data arranged by the county Office of Education.

Approximately 320 acres in Yoakum County are home to a flagship initiative of the Permian Energy Development Lab. That initiative, the Permian Integrated Energy System, designed to integrate ...

Staff Reports The test was scheduled for 4 a.m. July 16, 1945, but was postponed due to early morning rain and lightning. The device could… ...

This article is fourth in a series by White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs Office that will delve into the history of the Trinity Site Test, which marked its 80th anniversary on July 16, and the ...

The dawn of the atomic age came at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, when the U.S. Army set off the world’s first nuclear bomb in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert. Nearly half a million people lived ...