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Alamogordo

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Alamogordo

Town in New Mexico, USA, associated with nuclear testing. The first atom bomb was exploded nearby at Trinity Site 16 July 1945.

It is now a test site for guided missiles.



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It was in Los Alamos, New Mexico that the atomic bomb was developed and then tested at a site near Alamogordo.
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Thanks to a year with a whopping 10" of rain, the Bureau of Land Management has leased about 271,000 acres within Fort Bliss Military Reservation south of Alamogordo, N.
 
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