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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion.

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...

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

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

“It was a quirk of history that at that moment the energy of the atom was engineered to kill,” Schmidt told The National Interest. “The longer legacy of that day will be much greater than ‘the bomb.’ ...