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  1. 5 days ago · At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion.

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  2. 5 days ago · White Sands National Park is located in southern New Mexico, on the north side of U.S. Route 70 approximately 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Alamogordo and 52 miles (84 km) northeast of Las Cruces, in western Otero County and northeastern Doña Ana County.

  3. 5 days ago · It has been more than two decades since chimpanzee research came to a halt at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico. And yet, some two dozen chimps still live there, despite a federal...

  4. May 3, 2024 · White Sands National Park, an expanse of dazzling white gypsum sands in south-central New Mexico, U.S., covering 275 square miles (712 square km). It is situated in the Tularosa Basin, between Alamogordo (northeast) and Las Cruces (southwest).

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  5. 4 days ago · Las Cruces is the economic and geographic center of the Mesilla Valley, the agricultural region on the floodplain of the Rio Grande which extends from Hatch to the west side of El Paso, Texas. Las Cruces is the home of New Mexico State University (NMSU), New Mexico's only land-grant university.

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  7. 2 days ago · The Roswell incident is a collection of events and myths surrounding the 1947 crash of a United States Army Air Forces balloon near Roswell, New Mexico. Operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field and part of the top secret Project Mogul, the balloon was intended to detect Soviet nuclear tests.

  8. 3 days ago · The following is a list of films shot wholly or partly in New Mexico, United States.

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