Lucy Benavidez Garwood was 13 years old when the Trinity atomic bomb test was detonated at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, 50 miles from her home in Tularosa, on July 16, 1945. A ...
Operation Crossroads was designed to show what atomic weapons could do to a fleet at anchor and whether warships could still survive in the nuclear age. In 1946, a ghost fleet of battleships, carriers ...
May 5, 1955 - Behlen Manufacturing, headquartered in Columbus, Nebraska, built two frameless buildings for the Yucca Flat ...
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An atomic blast codenamed ESS was detonated on March 23, 1955, at the Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas (now the Nevada National Security Site). Photos from the era show reporters ...
Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82’, was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...