In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...

With New Mexico being the birthplace of the atomic bomb, it only makes sense that our state’s national labs are also ...

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A private energy company is abandoning a proposal to store nuclear waste at a site in southeastern New Mexico.

A number of social media posts in August 2025 shared a story about the civilian aftermath of America's rush to create the atomic bomb in 1945. According to the posts, a group of 13-year-old girls was ...

When the U.S. military detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon near New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, people living in the nearby areas were exposed to harmful radiation. Weeks later, ...

SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico State Police say they responded to a bomb threat against state Sen. Peter Wirth Thursday morning. Santa Fe Prep was evacuated and roads around the area were closed while ...

Holtec International has abandoned plans to build a commercial nuclear waste storage facility in southeastern New Mexico, the company announced Wednesday.

The US Air Force has awarded a contract for the design of a next-generation bunker-buster bomb. The bomb will eventually replace the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP. The MOP ...

The Holy See’s representative noted that since the first nuclear test, conducted on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, more than 2,000 nuclear tests have been carried out. Archbishop Gabriele ...

This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with Archbishop John Wester of Sante Fe, New Mexico, about his pilgrimage of peace last month to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, for the ...