At 5:30 a.m. mountain war time on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon detonated over a flat, arid stretch of New Mexico desert. The Trinity test, as it was code-named, confirmed that an ...

A native New Mexican and graduate student in conservation leadership says nuclear accountability should be a top priority for ...

New Mexico has literally been ground zero for the nuclear industry since the first atomic blast took place here in 1945. A ...

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About a year into my field research in Kazakhstan, I went to the city of Kurchatov, once the secret command center of the Soviet nuclear program, to make some photocopies. On the ground floor of an ...

A new nonpartisan group is launching a statewide education campaign to make sure people are ready for New Mexico's upcoming first-ever semi-open primary. This will be the first year in which ...

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Within minutes of takeoff from the Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, they were over the Baltic Sea, first intercepting a ...

It was 1972 and Apollo astronauts Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Eugene Cernan had just stepped onto the moon’s surface to begin collecting rock and soil samples. Related Articles US health officials nix ...

UK-based Pulsar Fusion announced it has successfully achieved first plasma in its Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket exhaust system. The demonstration, a world’s first for a rocket of this type, was ...