In New Mexico, such wealth is rare. Española, which sits on the Rio Grande and is a twenty-five-minute drive away, has a ...

2. 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 bomb. For the first time in history ...

A Pennsylvania dentist thought a “bat bomb," with 1,000 bats starting fires, would end the war faster than the atomic 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.

In July 1945, two days before the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert, Robert Oppenheimer recited a stanza from the Bhagavad Gita, or The Lord's Song. Oppenheimer ...

Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The film shows the clandestine project ...

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 ...

When the atomic bomb was used on Japan ... gave any acknowledgement to the sacrifice or suffering of the people of New Mexico," says Ms Cordova regretfully. Elsewhere in the state, the film ...

The movie focuses on J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the assembly and testing of the first-ever atomic bomb at Los Alamos in New Mexico. In several scenes, the physicist, who is becoming the ...