Oct. 14—In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site ...
India, Oct. 12 -- On 16 October 1964, the People's Republic of China (PRC) detonated its first atomic bomb at Lop Nur in Xinjiang, under the secretive codename Project 596. The test catapulted Beijing ...
Hidden deep in New Mexico, the Trinity Site marks the exact spot where the first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945. Once top-secret, now open only two days a year, this place reshaped history in less ...
On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt and grandfather were weeding the rice fields while her grandmother was ...