When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...

Trinity "downwinders" of New Mexico exposed to the first ever nuclear explosion are receiving recognition and compensation 80 ...

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 ...

Mary Riseley walked through glowing rows of luminarias looking for her mother's name at a vigil for New Mexico downwinders Wednesday, 80 years to the day after the first nuclear bomb test. As dark ...

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

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

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 ...

For weeks, fires and explosions have been reported almost daily in Iran. Officials are investigating what they think is a ...

The scientists who became the targets of Israel's recent attack on Iran were engaged in the creation of an explosive ...

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

Experts warned at a panel discussion Wednesday that the threat of nuclear war is increasing — but unlike in years past, many ...

Venezuelans deported by Trump to brutal El Salvador prison are transferred to Caracas in exchange for Americans Dylan Dreyer ...