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 ...

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

As the world marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated in the New Mexican desert, a Nevada congresswoman ...

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

The Hiroshima Municipal Government on July 16 opened to the media the vault at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound containing the ...

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

The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945.

Author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles a diverse range of players in his latest book about the first atomic bomb used in warfare. MacGregor uses visually enticing description and lively ...

According to the research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, children who lived near Coldwater Creek— a ...

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

The ashes of about 70,000 victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in August 1945 in the closing days of World War II ...

The first atomic bomb, nicknamed ‘The Gadget’, was launched at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 1945. Led ...