Barbara Kent and a dozen other 13-year-old girls believed nuclear fallout from the Manhattan Project's Trinity test was ...

The world waits as Russian President Vladimir Putin considers giving the green light to nuclear bomb testing at the former ...

The United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China all scrambled to develop ever more powerful nuclear weapons ...

Now, the Trinity test has added another fascinating layer to the study of quasicrystals, showing that they can also form under the traumatic conditions of a nuclear explosion.

The dawn calm was torn asunder as the United States Army detonated a plutonium implosion device known as the Gadget – the world's very first test of a nuclear bomb, known as the Trinity test ...

Eighty years after both the founding of the United Nations and the first use of nuclear weapons, the world must summon the ...

First atomic bomb test conducted in N.M. 80 years ago today still affects site The first atomic bomb test results in an explosion on July 16, 1945, at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M.

Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See's U.N. permanent observer, shared his thoughts in a statement he delivered Sept. 4 at U.N. headquarters in New York, during the General Assembly High-level ...

The federal government never warned them about the bomb test, never evacuated them after the blast, or advised them about the potential health consequences of nuclear fallout.

Jul. 20—TULAROSA — 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 ...

Russia is pushing ahead full-steam to develop a nuclear-powered, nuclear-capable cruise missile called the Burevestnik. The ...

The bomb hasn’t been used since, apart from test blasts, and after the Cold War ended in 1991, the risk of nuclear war mercifully declined.