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

In 1790, the U.S. Congress designated the District of Columbia as the permanent seat of the U.S. government. In 1935, the ...

Scam artists are targeting the $100,000 now available to eligible New Mexico victims of radiation exposure dating back to the ...

Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m ...

Veterans involved in nuclear waste clean ups at sites near Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Palomares, Spain, and ...

Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

The veterans are campaigning for full disclosure of the impact of the UK's nuclear testing programme.

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said it completed ‘Diamond stamping' of the new B61-13 nuclear bomb, ...

NAGASAKI—Atomic bomb survivors gathered at Nagasaki Peace Park here 35 years ago to protest the laying of a wreath by the ...