John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan with in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged U.S.

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

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

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

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 ...

On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of ...

Wikimedia Commons/EPA The 1979 Church Rock Uranium Spill United Nuclear Corporation ran the largest underground uranium mine in the United States at Church Rock, New Mexico. The operation pulled over ...

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 ...

Experts warned at a panel discussion Wednesday that the threat of nuclear war is increasing — but unlike in years past, many ...

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

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

The Trinity test wasn’t conducted on barren, uninhabited land. Half a million people lived within 150 miles of the explosion, some as close as 12 miles away. Eric S. Singer July 16 is the 80th ...