New Mexico was ground zero for the world's first atom bomb explosion, but the "downwinder" farmers and ranchers living near the Trinity test site, and the Navajo miners who dug the uranium used in the ...

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," released July 21, fixes its gaze on the titular J. Robert Oppenheimer, who coordinated the Manhattan Project, which ultimately led to the US using two nuclear ...

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Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” which dramatizes the Trinity nuclear test carried out almost eight decades ago, is inspiring reflection on one part of the story not covered by his smash hit film: ...

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE — Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico Catholic bishops, stood poised to venture into the White Sands Missile Range with plans to pray ...

A new documentary delves into what the blockbuster film “Oppenheimer” left out. The film “First We Bombed New Mexico” by Lois Lipman recognizes the 79th anniversary of the Trinity Test in New Mexico.

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is about the Manhattan Project, and features an atomic bomb test. To film the test, he used an old Hollywood trick and made a bomb in miniature instead of using CGI.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. — Trinity. The test that changed the course of human history, with the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in the world – right here in New Mexico. Located two hours ...