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White Sands Missile Range

noun

  1. a U.S. Army military testing ground for rockets and guided missiles in SW New Mexico, W of Alamogordo.


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Thousands of visitors are expected at the Trinity Site, a designated National Historic Landmark that’s usually closed to the public because of its proximity to the impact zone for missiles fired at White Sands Missile Range.

Trinity Site, a designated National Historic Landmark, is usually closed to the public because of its proximity to the impact zone for missiles fired at White Sands Missile Range.

The detonation site itself is known as Trinity Site, and it lies within the White Sands Missile Range, a 31-square-mile area of forbidden high desert, on a plateau of creosote and sand deep between two knife-sharp mountain ranges.

The undulating dunes of White Sands National Park, in Alamogordo, N.M., are surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range, where the first atomic bomb was test detonated in 1945.

The White Sands Missile Range occupies 2.2 million acres and is buffered by miles of private ranch land.

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