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Earlier this month, Hawley promised to help people with cancer and other diseases connected to nuclear contamination in the St. Louis, Missouri, region.

Jeremy Brunette tells park visitors about Pond Cabin, a tiny cabin that made a big impact on the Manhattan Project. Photo Courtesy LANL Phil Tubesing explains some of the experiments that were recorded using the equipment inside of Battleship bunker to the Los Alamos Reporter Maire O'Neill and others during a recent tour. Photo Courtesy…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during the Cold War, with a vote Thursday on a massive defense spending bill. Advancing on a 86-11 Senate vote, the provisions […]

The U.S. Senate voted for a major expansion to a bill that helps victims of radiation exposure from nuclear weapons testing.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are one step closer to getting reparations for New Mexicans affected by the detonation of the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site 78 years ago.

The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during the

The proposal would extend aid to downwinders exposed to radiation during weapons testing in several new regions stretching from Guam to New Mexico.

Scientists at Australia’s only nuclear reactor operator run their expert eye over Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film, Oppenheimer.

Read about scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

With the release of the Oppenheimer movie, it will be harder to visit the Trinity Nuclear Test site. Find out how to visit the site and see the film