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Generations of survivors of the world’s first nuclear bomb test have been excluded from any federal compensation.
The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls.
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 ...
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) –Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb test at the Trinity site in New Mexico, and the ...
On the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, downwinder and uranium miners discuss New Mexico’s nuclear legacy — and finally ...
Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.
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 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.’ ...
Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is commemorating Oak ...
We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.