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

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

"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.' ...

Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.

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

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 Mexico desert. The Trinity test, conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert ...

Congress earlier this month finally got around to making New Mexico fallout victims of the first test of an atomic bomb and ...

Decades ago, scientists in New Mexico worked tirelessly to discover and test the world’s most destructive weapon – the ...

Hosted by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, the group observed the 80th anniversary of the first ever atomic bomb test that took ...

The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site ...

Plus: New lengths immigrants are going to for legal fee fundraising. | Reparations for atom bomb victims 80 years after the Trinity Test.