OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project‘s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is commemorating Oak Ridge’s role in bringing World War II to an end.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE — 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 ...

We are amidst the 80th anniversary of three solemn days in world history, calling us to action for the sake of all life on earth. Wednesday marks 80 years since Trinity, the first detonation of a ...

At approximately 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexican desert. It was bright, hot, and loud. Scientists and military personnel crouched nearby in ...

Representatives of various groups, including one that earned a Nobel Peace Prize, gathered at an interfaith event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to call for nuclear disarmament worldwide. Hosted by the ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico on what's now the White Sands Missile Range. About 40 miles away from the Trinity test site, a group of girls at a ...