Because of wartime secrecy, the Santa Fe New Mexican could not report on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos until atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in August 1945. The atomic bomb developed at Los Alamos was tested at White Sands on July 16, 1945.
You can read an excellent account of the Manhattan Project and the Trinity site test on the Crestone Conglomerate web site of longtime New Mexico/Colorado journalist Larry Calloway at https://larrycalloway.com/2023/07/12/530-a-m-july-16-1945/ . It’s a condensed version of stories he wrote for the Albuquerque Journal in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the Trinity site test.
Fritz Thompson, another longtime New Mexico journalist, also wrote about Trinity site history for the Albuquerque Journal’s 50th anniversary series. See his engaging “Locals Had Ringside Seat to History” below, with photos by Richard Pipes. I’ve reproduced an entire story since I had to retrieve it from the cloud with my paid subscription to newspapers.com, even though I worked for the Journal for 33 years and Fritz for many moons, too.
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