On July 9, 1945, the U.S. Army established White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin. Seven days later the detonation of the first atomic bomb at Trinity Site, ushered in the ...

ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico (dpa) – The noonday sun is burning down hotly on the deserts of White Sands. Off in the distance ... more than half a century ago. Ground Zero. On July 16, 1945, at ...

On July 9, 1945, the U.S. Army established White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin. Seven days later the detonation of the first atomic bomb at Trinity Site, ushered in the ...

For more than 70 years, New Mexico has been a major military crossroads ... just east of the White Sands Proving Grounds, the Alamogordo Army Air Base was established. As the war pushed on ...

LAS CRUCES – Three quarters of a century have passed since White Sands Proving Ground was established in southern New Mexico. Tests, employees and leaders have come and gone, leaving a mark on ...

The first nuclear weapons deonation in history took place on July 15, 1945, at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. A month after the Trinity Test, the US dropped atomic bombs on the ...

The rocket research by the German and American scientists was a part of the Hermes projects at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico; Fort Bliss, Texas; and Huntsville, Alabama. 1947: In June ...

WHITE SANDS, N.M. | Located on the barren desert of southern New Mexico is the White Sands Missile Range, where more than 40,500 rockets and missiles have been safely fired New Mexico's museum of ...

Early that morning, a group of about 250 scientists and military officers had crowded into three bunkers in the New Mexico desert ... tested at the White Sands Proving Ground in the Jornada ...

At 2:47 on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 16, 1946, a captured Nazi V-2 missile ascended from the U.S. Army’s new White Sands Proving Ground in south-central New Mexico. It didn’t get very far.

One of the questions I have been asked most often is about the V-2 rocket from White Sands Proving Ground that landed in Juárez. So, I'm bringing back this column that originally ran in the ...