The First Atomic BombNamed a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the worlds first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in south central New Mexico. Immensely more powerful than any weapon the world had seen, the bombs effects on the surrounding and downwind