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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...

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.’ ...

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

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

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