At various points of the public event, the Nobel laureates and nuclear experts looked back at the Manhattan Project ...

Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves: After arriving at the Alamogordo base camp on July 15, a brief review of the situation with Oppenheimer revealed that we might be in trouble. The bomb had been assembled and ...

This football fan became upset when his favorite team was not winning the game. As he watched the game not go his team's way, ...

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.

The first atomic bomb was tested that morning, the result of the U.S. Manhattan Project to develop the ultimate weapon. Just weeks later the U.S. would drop atomic bombs on Japan, destroying the ...

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

U.S. officials have said a strategy of deterrence may have to shift to accommodate increasingly adversarial relationships with nuclear countries.

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 ...