On July 16, 1945, the breakthroughs at Los Alamos were put to the test in a world-changing experiment called Trinity, a few hours south in the New Mexico desert. At 5:29 a.m., onlookers saw a ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his ...

Three Air Force bases, White Sands Missile Range and the federal research facilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories are located in New Mexico. Much of the state ...

LOS ALAMOS COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A long-awaited project that could help fight wildfires faster is taking shape in northern New Mexico, with the construction of a major water pipeline.

The lands identified as potential sites include a number of national laboratories, such as the New Mexico-centered Los Alamos and Sandia laboratories and Oak Ridge in Tennessee. While the tech ...