It is 80 years since the first nuclear weapon test – codenamed Trinity – detonated above the desert in New Mexico. Today the ...

In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an ...

ON July 16, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb, which took place in the remote desert of the US state of New Mexico. Just three weeks ...

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

July 16, marked the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the US military’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon in the deserts of New Mexico.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls. Now, a new arms race is heating up.

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

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

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

We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.

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

Downwinders and other survivors of NM's nuclear legacy mark the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, amid RECA expansion ...