You know the story from the 2023 blockbuster, Oppenheimer, which dramatized J. Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, in his troubled quest to reach the dawn of the nuclear age.

The world's first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located ...

July 16, marked the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the US military’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon in the deserts of New Mexico.

July 16, 2025 marked 80 years since the atomic test at the Trinity site, as well as the 46th anniversary of the toxic uranium ...

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 ...

More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons ...

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.