LAMAR COUNTY, MS (WLOX) – The state of Mississippi has taken ownership of a 1500 acre tract in Lamar County, where the federal government once conducted nuclear tests. The Tatum Salt Dome was ...

The 75th anniversary of what’s known as the Trinity explosion, the world’s first nuclear weapon test, comes as tensions over nuclear devices intensify. By Maria Cramer It was 1 a.m. on July 16 ...

The test was named Project Salmon and its first goal was to detonate a nuclear bomb 2,700 feet underground in the salt dome. Early in the morning on Oct. 22, 1964, 400 residents were evacuated ...

BAXTERVILLE, Miss. (WDAM) - There’s no signpost marking Mississippi’s only nuclear test site. There’s no visitor center, either — just timberland, wildlife … and a radioactive legacy ...

The first goal was to detonate a nuclear bomb 2,700 feet underground in the salt dome, the Atomic Heritage Foundation said. About 400 residents were evacuated from a 5-mile radius of the testing ...

July is a hard month for a lot of us here in New Mexico, where thousands of people’s lives were upended by the test of the world’s first nuclear bomb. The events of July 16, 1945, weigh ...

At 10 a.m. on Oct. 22, 1964, a five-kiloton nuclear device was detonated in Lamar County, Mississippi. The previous year, as a response to rising public anxiety over the potential fallout of ...

The popularity of the summer box-office hit "Oppenheimer," which has already grossed over $649 million worldwide, is expected to attract the masses to the Trinity nuclear test site in the remote ...

HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) - At 10 a.m. on October 22, 1964, the United States government detonated a nuclear device 2,700 feet below Salmon Nuclear Test Site in Lamar County.