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 ...

It is 80 years since the first nuclear weapon test – codenamed Trinity – detonated above the desert in New Mexico. Today the ...

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 ...

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 ...

ON July 16, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb, which took ...

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

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

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

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