The Hiroshima bomb is the most devastating to have been used in real combat. But today’s nuclear weapons are far, far more ...

Schmidt/McDonald Ranch House (2 miles away): The government took over the Schmidt/McDonald ranch in 1942, and scientists and military personnel later used it as the assembly site for the Trinity test ...

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

Scientists and others are calling on civil society to heed growing nuclear dangers and revive the anti-nuclear movement.

Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous United States.) A bright, blinding light flashed above New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945.

The first atomic bomb test results in an explosion on July 16, 1945, at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M. It was a monumental event, which helped to dictate the course of World War II, and ...

When the first atomic bomb exploded on July 16, 1945, at 5:29 AM, the world did not immediately change, but it would never be the same again.

In mid-July 1945, the world’s first atomic weapon was assembled for a test in a remote corner of the New Mexico desert known ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. Even after the renowned physicist ...

The exact number of people eligible for nuclear-weapons-related radiation compensation across the nation remains unknown. But Tina Cordova, who cofounded the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, ...