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 ...

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 ...

This is where it all began—the world’s first nuclear explosion. Twice a year, visitors can stand where history turned radioactive at the Trinity Test Site in New Mexico. Here's what it's like to walk ...

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," ...

President Donald Trump has called for the United States to test its nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. But Trump’s statements about testing — in particular, whether other nations are ...