Hey, this is Outside In, I'm Nate Hegey.

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a bus outside of the gates of a military base in New

Mexico.

It was hot, the air conditioning was roaring.

While we are on the range and we are driving, there's no photography, videography, audio

recordings of any time.

That was our handler, Jen Jet, and this place is the White Sands Missile Range.

It has hypersonic missiles, military secrets we weren't allowed to know about, and also

African antelope.

Orics were introduced by wildlife officials in New Mexico in the 1960s for trophy hunting.

Now they roam wild out on this act of bombing range.

But we weren't there to see Orics.

We were there to see a monument.

All right, so we just stepped out of the bus and kind of near a fenced area with barbed

wire, a little hut, and then a classic yellow sign that says caution, radioactive materials.

And there's a gravel road leading towards the Trinity site.

It's the code name for one of the most consequential moments in history.

The place where, on July 16th, 1945, the first atomic bomb was tested.

They only opened the site to civilians a couple days a year.

And once we finally got there, I was allowed to record.

So we're walking up to the fence line.

It's completely fenced off and I'm curious as to whether we're actually going to be able

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