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

July 16, 2025 marked 80 years since the atomic test at the Trinity site, as well as the 46th anniversary of the toxic uranium ...

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 ...

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

The world's first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States conducted the world’s first-ever nuclear test, known as the Trinity test, in the desert ...

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.

The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...

Eighty years after the Trinity nuclear test, Taiwan and the world remain under the threat of nuclear conflict, as global ...

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

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...