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

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

Author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles a diverse range of players in his latest book about the first atomic bomb used ...

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 ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls.

The first atomic bomb was tested that morning, the result of the U.S. Manhattan Project to develop the ultimate weapon. Just weeks later the U.S. would drop atomic bombs on Japan, destroying the ...

The bomb hasn’t been used since, apart from test blasts, and after the Cold War ended in 1991, the risk of nuclear war mercifully declined. Now the risk is back on the rise, as an alarming new nuclear ...

In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an ...

Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona for decades has been a leader at using fire to make the ecosystem more resilient.

Boulder ENOFF returns July 17-20 with a lineup of films exploring Colorado’s environmental challenges and stories, from wolf ...