On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project ...

Cordova speaks on her decades of work with the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium to fight for compensation and ...

In 1945, the Trinity test signified the beginning of the nuclear age and marked the successful output of the Manhattan ...

This color photograph of the test was taken by Jack Aeby. On July 16, 1945, at 5:30 am, the first atomic bomb in history was detonated at what is now White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The ...

A bipartisan group in Congress plans to introduce legislation that will expand the federal government’s program compensating ...

New Mexico was ground zero for the first atom bomb explosion, but the "downwinder" farmers and ranchers living near the Trinity test site, and the Navajo miners who dug the uranium, have been shut out ...

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Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," released July 21, fixes its gaze on the titular J. Robert Oppenheimer, who coordinated the Manhattan Project, which ultimately led to the US using two nuclear ...