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80 years later, victims of ‘first atom bomb’ will soon be eligible for reparations

(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 ...
Albuquerque Journal

80 years after first nuclear bomb test, New Mexico downwinders remember hearing the blast

TULAROSA — Mary Riseley walked through glowing rows of luminarias looking for her mother’s name at a vigil for New Mexico downwinders Wednesday, 80 years to the day after the first nuclear bomb test.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima’s nuclear toll

In the late morning hours of August 6, 1945, a single shutter clicked in Hiroshima and recorded what no camera had ever captured before, and none has again: the immediate, lived aftermath of a city ...
Post and Courier

Guest editorial: Risk of nuclear war waned after the Cold War. It’s back with a vengeance

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

General Groves invented the Atomic Bomb, not Oppenheimer

Editor’s note: This essay is paired with a second essay that offers a contrasting perspective about J. Robert Oppenheimer. On August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded above the city of ...