ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — From the deserts of southern New Mexico and Nevada to islands in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. government conducted dozens of nuclear weapons tests from the 1940s until the ...

Stanley Kubrick’s ruthless satire of Cold War tensions stands the test of time as an indictment of the madness at the center ...

On July 22, 2016, the U.S. National Security Archives declassified and released all the footage shot by Task Force One, the Army Air Force scientific photographic unit as it flew over Bikini Atoll ...

New Mexico Sen. Leo Jaramillo walks into a theater for the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024.

From 1945 to 1962, the U.S. conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests, filming each with high speed cameras at about 2,400 frames per second. Decades later, roughly 10,000 reels sat unseen in secure ...

Hoyte van Hoytema, who captured an atomic bomb test in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and an ice planet in “Interstellar,” is known for intimate closeups and awe-inspiring vista shots while pushing ...

After the public got a newsreel glimpse of what the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did to the Japanese, the footage lay dormant for more than two decades — shaping how the U.S.

In the 1950s the American public accepted above-ground nuclear bomb blasts just 65 miles from an American city as part of the ongoing Cold War effort. The tests became a tourist attraction for ...