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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Decades ago, scientists in New Mexico worked tirelessly to discover and test the world’s most destructive weapon – 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 is 80 years since the first nuclear weapon test – codenamed Trinity – detonated above the desert in New Mexico. Today the ...

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.