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 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity ...

A crowd of activists, politicians, journalists and New Mexico Department of Transportation employees gathered on the side of U.S. 380 Wednesday to unveil a new sign commemorating the history of the ...

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

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

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

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

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

July 16 is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in 1945, 12 young girls attending a summer camp in Ruidoso, New Mexico, were jolted out of their bunks ...

Scientists and military leaders proceeded with the first atomic bomb test despite acknowledging the risk of a catastrophe.