On July 16, 1945, the United States Army detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert.
![[Operation Cue] - Two-story wood frame house at 5,500 feet after the blast, 05/05/1955](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/12/f1/bc/12f1bc739405702b654a025d2ecc3bbd.jpg)
