Following a recent five-hour drive east from Tucson, the New Mexico desert sky was robin-egg blue, with wildflowers gently opening to the sun’s warmth. I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where ...

On July 16, 1945 — 80 years ago — the federal government detonated the first atomic bomb in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico. That test, known as the Trinity Test, changed the world — and it changed ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Wednesday marked 80 years since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima instantly killing tens of thousands of people and more in time from the lasting impact. New ...

Eighty years ago, a weapon was used which would transform modern warfare and the entire world forever. Hiroshima, in Japan, was the target of the first ever nuclear weapon, dropped by the US Air Force ...

At 8:15 a.m., a B‑29 named Enola Gay drifts over Hiroshima and releases Little Boy, a uranium-fueled bomb built by the Manhattan Project. Forty‑three seconds later, at about 580 m above ground, it ...