The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were ...

On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of ...

More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls.

Generations of survivors of the world’s first nuclear bomb test have been excluded from any federal compensation.

The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...

Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico Catholic bishops, stood poised to venture into the White Sands Missile Range with plans to pray for peace and the ...

We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.

The first atomic bomb explosion, code-named “Trinity,” occurred on this day in 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in the ...

Congress earlier this month finally got around to making New Mexico fallout victims of the first test of an atomic bomb and ...

Decades ago, scientists in New Mexico worked tirelessly to discover and test the world’s most destructive weapon – the ...