HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWS RELEASE The Los Alamos Historical Society is pleased to announce its upcoming free lectures on ...
This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the Southern New Mexico desert. The test, which sent a giant mushroom cloud ...
A historic Manhattan Project building is getting a new lease on life in Los Alamos, as the county plans to transform it into a hub for national park tourism. New ...
The Los Alamos home where Manhattan Project scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer lived with his family during World War II has never been open to the public. That will change soon if a ...
Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project. Almost overnight, the ranching enclave on a remote plateau in northern New Mexico was transformed into a ...
On July 16, 1945, the first nuclear bomb exploded in the middle of the vast, isolated New Mexico desert, just outside the city of Socorro, which today is a popular birding destination with artsy charm ...