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 Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.

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

Eighty years after the Trinity nuclear test, Taiwan and the world remain under the threat of nuclear conflict, as global ...

The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945.

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...

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

“It was a quirk of history that at that moment the energy of the atom was engineered to kill,” Schmidt told The National Interest. “The longer legacy of that day will be much greater than ‘the bomb.’ ...

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 ...

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

Congress earlier this month finally got around to making New Mexico fallout victims of the first test of an atomic bomb and ...