As millions of people head to the theaters this weekend to see Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer, a new study has been released that tracks the radioactive devastation wrought by the U.S ...

July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...

On July 16, 1945 humans detonated our first nuclear weapon. Code named Trinity, the detonation released the energy equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT and was hot enough to turn sand into glass.

Congress failed to pass legislation to compensate those poisoned by nuclear weapons activities. Meanwhile, money is flowing ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

Since the first nuclear explosion in history during the Trinity test in 1945, nuclear weapons have significantly shaped the ...

Thirteen-year-old Barbara Kent attended her El Paso dance teacher’s prestigious month-long summer camp in the desert near ...

1. This is not a concise, formal military report but an attempt to recite what I would have told you if you had been here on my return from New Mexico. 2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote ...