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

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 ...

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 ...

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

White Sands Missile Range will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Trinity Site test, marking a new era in scientific ...

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

“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.’ ...

Amid growing global tensions, major gaps in diplomatic relations and fitful efforts to reduce the weapons stockpile, some experts are warning it’s time for world leaders to renew their focus on ...

Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion.

On July 16, 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico; the ...