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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Emerging dangers are reshaping the landscape of nuclear deterrence and increasing the threat of mutual annihilation.

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

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

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 ...