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

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

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

Eighty years after the Trinity nuclear test, Taiwan and the world remain under the threat of nuclear conflict, as global ...

The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945.

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

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

Experts warned at a panel discussion Wednesday that the threat of nuclear war is increasing — but unlike in years past, many ...

Tremendous progress has been made in reducing global nuclear stockpiles and nuclear risks, but we are now heading 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 ...

“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.’ ...