Alamogordo

[ al-uh-muh-gawr-doh ]

noun

1. a city in S New Mexico: first atomic bomb exploded in the desert about 50 miles (80 km) NW of here, July 16, 1945.

Example Sentences

As of last October, 28 chimps remained at Alamogordo, all of whom were moribund, the N.I.H. said in an email.

From New York Times

It has been more than two decades since chimpanzee research came to a halt at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico.

From New York Times

Republican state Sen. William Burt of Alamogordo urged colleagues to support the bill “because oil and gas won’t always be there for us.”

From Seattle Times

Stefani Lord of Sandia Park and John Block of Alamogordo accuses the governor of violating her oath of office to uphold the state and federal constitutions.

From Seattle Times

To do so, they turned to humanmade explosions of the magnitude of cosmic airbursts: nuclear tests conducted at the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico in 1945 and in Kazakhstan, in 1949 and 1953.

From Science Daily