On March 1, the 70th anniversary of the Castle Bravo test, a group of Japanese, including descendants of the victims, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the U.S. military detonated the world's first nuclear weapon near New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bright, blinding light flashed above New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. The thunderous roar ...

WASHINGTON — A program to compensate people exposed to radiation from past nuclear weapons testing and manufacturing could be restarted and expanded under a provision added by U.S. senators to the ...

(KFVS) - All Missouri residents who have filed claims under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act have received money, according to Sen. Josh Hawley. The Act helps victims of Manhattan Project-era ...

This August marks 80 years since the United States detonated two atomic weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. This gets a lot of attention in history books and the media, as it marks the end of ...

When the U.S. military detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon near New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, people living in the nearby areas were exposed to harmful radiation. Weeks later, ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...