News

New U.S. assessment finds American strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites
President Donald Trump rejected a military plan for more comprehensive strikes on Iran’s nuclear program that would have ...
First atomic bomb tested 80 years ago at White Sands Missile Range seen in El Paso
The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945.
Las Vegas Sun1d
First atomic bomb test conducted in N.M. 80 years ago today still affects site
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...
Vintage Aviation News on MSN1d
Operation Midnight Hammer and The Legacy of Long-Range Airpower
Explore the history of long-range strategic bombing-from WWI Zeppelins to the B-2's 2025 strike on Iran-highlighting key ...
What happened when the Trinity test bomb detonated, from the creation of green glass to fallout that drifted over 1,000 miles
The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.
Los Alamos and the controversial legacy of the atomic bomb
Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...