KPBS

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Bombshell

Premieres Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. Eighty years after the devastating atomic bombings ...
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 ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

1946: The Bikini Tests and Public Opinion

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...
HUB

Fallout: Eighty years later

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...
Interesting Engineering

Japan’s atomic bomb blast victim identified after 8 decades with DNA analysis

Researchers have used DNA from strands of hair to identify a teenage victim of the Hiroshima atomic bombing nearly 80 years ...
ktiv

We The People: The Iowan whose efforts helped create the atomic bomb

IOWA (KTIV) - He was a poor farm boy from Iowa who went on to change the world by refining the elusive ingredient needed to make the atomic bomb. This edition of “We The People” focuses on Iowan ...