() - Nevada veterans are awaiting the final passage of S. 2220, a landmark bill that would acknowledge those who served at ...

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...

Jul. 20—TULAROSA — Mary Riseley walked through glowing rows of luminarias looking for her mother's name at a vigil for New Mexico downwinders Wednesday, 80 years to the day after the first nuclear ...

With New Mexico being the birthplace of the atomic bomb, it only makes sense that our state’s national labs are also ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Operation Desert Rock was the codename for a series of military tests in the 1950s aimed at understanding the effects of atomic radiation on ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

A House of Dynamite is far from the first movie to think about the “what if” doomsday scenario. For much of the Cold War, the ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

In 1953, the man known during his lifetime only as H.M. underwent neurosurgery to cure his severe epilepsy. The operation inadvertently destroyed most of his hippocampus, a brain structure nobody ...

Reddit is great for a lot of different reasons — while most of the time it’s a good way to catch up on news of the day, it’s also a terrific source for stories of the past, and typically include a ...