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We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.
More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons ...
On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of ...
Experts warned at a panel discussion Wednesday that the threat of nuclear war is increasing — but unlike in years past, many ...
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...
Tremendous progress has been made in reducing global nuclear stockpiles and nuclear risks, but we are now heading in the ...
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 ...
U.S. officials have said a strategy of deterrence may have to shift to accommodate increasingly adversarial relationships with nuclear countries.
“It was a quirk of history that at that moment the energy of the atom was engineered to kill,” Schmidt told The National Interest. “The longer legacy of that day will be much greater than ‘the bomb.’ ...
The Trinity Test changed the course of human history and continues to have an impact on people in New Mexico, some of whom ...
After two-and-a-half days of meetings in a mostly sunny midsummer Chicago, concerned Nobel Prize laureates and many of the world’s top experts on nuclear weapons spoke out on a dark subject: the high ...
Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is commemorating Oak ...