The Trinity test’s legacy endures in New Mexico as the U.S. moves to expand nuclear weapons production amid health concerns ...

2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of ...

August 29 marks the anniversary of the first nuclear test at the Soviet Union’s Semipalatinsk test site in modern-day Kazakhstan—and also its closure. August 29 is the United Nations’ International ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — An unknown blast shook the desolate New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, unsettling the historic Hispanic village of Tularosa. Most residents lacked phones and radios, so they ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — People who lived near the site of the first atomic bomb test in the New Mexico desert and later developed cancer and other health problems need to be compensated, a U.S.