Before 1945 , hardly anyone outside of new mexico had ever heard of alamogordo .
在1945年以前,新墨西哥之外几乎没有人听说过阿拉墨克多。
At last the sandstorm stopped and I was able to turn my face towards alamogordo .
最终沙尘暴停了,我可以向着阿拉莫戈往回走了。
Ever since 1898 , when the town had been built by the southern pacific railroad , alamogordo had been a lonely town . The land around it was largely desert , and largely empty .
Because it was isolated and because the weather was almost always clear and peaceful , a spot of desert near alamogordo was chosen as the test site for the first atomic bomb ever exploded . The secret name of the test was zero .