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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 ...
The world's first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located ...
July 16, 2025 marked 80 years since the atomic test at the Trinity site, as well as the 46th anniversary of the toxic uranium ...
Congress earlier this month finally got around to making New Mexico fallout victims of the first test of an atomic bomb and ...
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls.
New Mexicans impacted by the Trinity Test are getting closer to receiving compensation after eight decades of health problems ...
On this day, 80 years ago, the United States Military tested the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site here in New Mexico. An event that would forever change the nature of warfare. The day is ...
The first atomic bomb explosion, code-named “Trinity,” occurred on this day in 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in the ...
The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.
Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.
We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.