Just two days a year, New Mexico visitors are allowed to visit the site of an historic event that changed our world. On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m., the US Military uncorked the nuclear bottle, allowing the genie to escape. In the middle of the White Sands Missile Range, at nearly the dead center of New Mexico, it detonated “The Gadget”, a 13 pound plutonium bomb. The explosion turned the sand into glass, shattered windows 120 miles away, and rattled the ground 250 miles away. Less than a month later, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, and […]