On 24 September 1982 , Fulwyler became the 16th Commander of the White Sands Missile Range . He established a launch complex at Mountain Home , Idaho . He took a particular interest in the history of the Range . He directed the restoration of the White Sands V-2 Launching Site , and acquired funding from the Department of Energy and the Army for the National Park Service to completely restore the McDonald Ranch House , . where the plutonium hemispheres for the pit of the Trinity nuclear test bomb were assembled . He also led volunteers in cleaning up Burn Lake in Las Cruces , New Mexico , and laying sod for the Albert Johnson Memorial Park there
Trinity nuclear test
Trinity (nuclear test)
Niles Fulwyler