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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.

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

Downwinders, public officials and advocates gathered at Stallion Gate, where a new historical marker recognizes the toll of ...