The crew of the USS Indianapolis, a United States Navy cruiser, was headed toward the Philippines after completing a ...

The National Cemetery Services Administration is a branch of the Veterans Administration. The NCA is proudly honoring your service and sacrifice by helping ensure your legacy lives on. Too often, ...

The 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity ...

A crowd of activists, politicians, journalists and New Mexico Department of Transportation employees gathered on the side of U.S. 380 Wednesday to unveil a new sign commemorating the history of the ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...

On July 16, 1945 — 80 years ago — the federal government detonated the first atomic bomb in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico.

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 ...

At various points of the public event, the Nobel laureates and nuclear experts looked back at the Manhattan Project ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls. Now, a new arms race is heating up.

Generations of survivors of the world’s first nuclear bomb test have been excluded from any federal compensation.