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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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.’ ...

Tucson, Arizona, USA, has been battling against strong winds and rainfall as a potential monsoon storm could soon approach ...

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

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

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

On the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, downwinder and uranium miners discuss New Mexico’s nuclear legacy — and finally ...

The hard work in Oak Ridge contributed to the research leading up to the Trinity Test, the very first deployment of a nuclear weapon in history.