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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On July 16, 1945, the first successful test of the atomic bomb was conducted in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

“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.’ ...

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

Emerging dangers are reshaping the landscape of nuclear deterrence and increasing the threat of mutual annihilation.