Albuquerque Journal

First atomic bomb test site, Trinity Site, open house canceled amid government shutdown

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site is ...
Albuquerque Journal

OPINION: 80 years later, we’re still fighting for justice

On July 16, 1945 — 80 years ago — the federal government detonated the first atomic bomb in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico. That test, known as the Trinity Test, changed the world — and it changed ...
AOL

House Speaker Mike Johnson called on to pass nuclear weapons reparations for New Mexicans

Reparations for New Mexicans impacted by nuclear weapons testing could be held up in the GOP-led House of Representatives after the U.S. Senate passed a bill in March to provide payments to those ...
TASS

FACTBOX: What is known about nuclear tests and documents banning them

TASS FACTBOX. On October 30, 2025, US President Donald Trump announced that he had instructed the Department of War to begin nuclear weapons testing because "other countries are doing the same," ...
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Experts: Full nuclear weapons tests would backfire on US

Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons - as President Donald Trump called for last week - would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation efforts, and empower the nation's adversaries to ...