Air Force Times on MSN

Bad actors use bogus offers to go after payouts to families affected by first atomic bomb test

Scam artists are targeting the $100,000 now available to eligible New Mexico victims of radiation exposure dating back to the ...

Trinity at 81: How the first atomic test ushered in the nuclear age

In 1945, the Trinity test signified the beginning of the nuclear age and marked the successful output of the Manhattan ...

On This Day, July 16: U.S. tests first atom bomb

In 1790, the U.S. Congress designated the District of Columbia as the permanent seat of the U.S. government. In 1935, the ...
19FortyFive on MSN

81 years ago today, a 21-kiloton test in the New Mexico desert gave humanity the power to ...

On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project ...