The world waits as Russian President Vladimir Putin considers giving the green light to nuclear bomb testing at the former ...

Eighty years after both the founding of the United Nations and the first use of nuclear weapons, the world must summon the ...

Scientists set off the Trinity test atomic bomb on July 16, 1945. Though they chose a somewhat secluded area of the desert, people lived less than 20 miles away. It was impossible to hide the ...

The United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China all scrambled to develop ever more powerful nuclear weapons post-World War II. The legacy of their nuclear testing remains.

Barbara Kent and a dozen other 13-year-old girls believed nuclear fallout from the Manhattan Project's Trinity test was summertime snow.

Scientists and military leaders proceeded with the first atomic bomb test despite acknowledging the risk of a catastrophe.

The federal government never warned them about the bomb test, never evacuated them after the blast, or advised them about the potential health consequences of nuclear fallout.

Thursday marks 70 years since Trinity Test took place as part of the Manhattan Project, a top-secret World War II nuclear development program.

Each August 29, we should not only mark the International Day against Nuclear Tests but also commit to education and ...

The International Day against Nuclear Tests Is the Time to Stop the Bomb Ray Acheson In 1945, the United States built and detonated the first nuclear ...

This summer, the Atomic Museum opened the exhibit featuring a collection of artifacts that tell a more complete story of the ...