"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit ... and was detonated in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Overseeing the project was US Brig. Gen.

Image labeled '0.053 Sec' of the first Nuclear Test, codenamed 'Trinity', conducted by Los Alamos National Laboratory at Alamogordo, New Mexico circa ... the atomic bomb has become pop culture ...

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. — Visitors lined up Saturday to tour the southern New Mexico site where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in what officials believe could be a record ...

It’s not hyperbole to suggest that there are two worlds – one before and one after the detonation of the atomic ... tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The U.S. dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima ...

On July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear test took place when the U.S. tested a plutonium implosion device at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Doritos Dye Makes Mice ...

Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic ... at the nearby Alamogordo Air Base. Even after the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the following month, and New Mexico residents ...

But many New Mexico residents consider it the beginning ... Gadget', the first atomic bomb explodes in Alamogordo, N.M., July 16, 1945. Corbis via Getty Images They continued testing bombs in ...

The world’s first atomic bomb exploded ... Winery & Bistro, in Alamogordo, serves American-style food and wine. The Lescombes family has been growing grapes in New Mexico since 1981.