Brief by Ed Quillen
Area history – July 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine
FIFTY-FOUR YEARS AGO this month, on July 16, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in the Jornada del Muerto, in central New Mexico between Alamogordo and Socorro. (Curiously enough, the place was named the Journey of Death — or as some would have it, A Day’s Journey into Death — long before that event.)