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 ...

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

The first atomic bomb explosion, code-named “Trinity,” occurred on this day in 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in the ...

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 ...

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

The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium was created in 2005 in an attempt to right that obvious wrong. It has been a long, ...

July 16 is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in 1945, 12 young girls ...

Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion.

Scientists and military leaders proceeded with the first atomic bomb test despite acknowledging the risk of a catastrophe.

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