Archbishop John C. Wester, head of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, speaks to reporters on Nov. 29, 2018. (Credit: Susan Montoya Bryan/AP.) Listen NEW YORK – In a year in which the legacy of ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – On this day, 80 years ago, the United States Military tested the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site here in New Mexico. An event that would forever change the nature of warfare.

New Mexico Sen. Leo Jaramillo walks into a theater for the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024.

The first time Americans had ever heard of the atomic bomb was hours after the U.S. bombed Hiroshima in August 1945. But it was tested a month before that in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

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 ...

Thousands of dollars could come to New Mexicans who grew sick after working in uranium mines or after above ground nuclear tests, but advocates say there is more work to be done and exactly how many ...

Color photo of the mushroom cloud from the Trinity Test in 1945, taken by Jack Aeby Eighty years ago Wednesday, on July 16, 1945, the world changed forever when the first atomic bomb was detonated in ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. It might not have as reverent a name as the Trinity Test or a litany of films made about it. But Project Gnome, ...