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Generations of survivors of the world’s first nuclear bomb test have been excluded from any federal compensation.
July 16, 2025 marked 80 years since the atomic test at the Trinity site, as well as the 46th anniversary of the toxic uranium ...
On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of New Mexico. Today, 80 years later, the bomb still dominates our lives—we ...
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls.
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, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...
The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...
Experts warned at a panel discussion Wednesday that the threat of nuclear war is increasing — but unlike in years past, many ...
The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.
In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...
Tremendous progress has been made in reducing global nuclear stockpiles and nuclear risks, but we are now heading in the ...
Eighty years after the Trinity nuclear test, Taiwan and the world remain under the threat of nuclear conflict, as global ...