On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project ...
At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, briefly became a furnace unlike any on Earth’s surface. The world’s first nuclear bomb test vaporized steel, copper, cables, ...
US army soldier firing M4 carbine in the desert during the military operation in desert© zim286 / iStock via Getty Images Desert warfare has long been one of the harshest testing grounds in military ...