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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 ...
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 ...
Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico Catholic bishops, stood poised to venture into the White Sands Missile Range with plans to pray for peace and the ...
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 ...
Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is commemorating Oak ...
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.
The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.
The hard work in Oak Ridge contributed to the research leading up to the Trinity Test, the very first deployment of a nuclear weapon in history.