White Sands Missile Range

American  

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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White Sands Missile Range

Mexico's Ciudad Juarez is just south and west of El Paso, and US Army base Fort Bliss and White Sands Missile Range lie to the north.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

Such areas include BLM-managed lands in the vicinity of the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico, as well as the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025

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.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

Its crew capsules splash down off the Florida coast, Boeing’s Starliner returns to the Army’s expansive and desolate White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2022

SIMTEL20 The White Sands Missile Range used to maintain a giant collection of free and low-cost software of all kinds, which was "mirrored" to numerous other ftp sites on the Net.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation