July 16 marked 80 years since the atomic test at the Trinity site, as well as 46 years since the toxic uranium spill at the ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls.

Generations of survivors of the world’s first nuclear bomb test have been excluded from any federal compensation.

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

Tremendous progress has been made in reducing global nuclear stockpiles and nuclear risks, but we are now heading in the ...

In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an ...

We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.

The first atomic bomb was tested that morning, the result of the U.S. Manhattan Project to develop the ultimate weapon. Just weeks later the U.S. would drop atomic bombs on Japan, destroying the ...

Downwinders and other survivors of NM's nuclear legacy mark the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, amid RECA expansion ...

On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of ...

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