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Rest In Peace, Pope Francis: As a human being of deep faith and compassion, Pope Francis was a true visionary in moving the Catholic Church from conditional acceptance of so-called “deterrence” to outright rejection of nuclear weapons as immoral. As we approach the 80th anniversaries of the Trinity Test and the atomic bombings, we need to really take his teachings to heart and work toward a future world free of nuclear weapons. Some might say this is naive. Pope Francis would point out it’s naive to think we can live with nuclear weapons forever.

Trinity Downwinders: 75 Years And Waiting

Excerpt from Rep. Hank Johnson’s closing comments: “I heard the figure $2.5 billion in claims have been paid out thus far to 37,000 claimants. The cost of maintaining our nuclear...

Trinity: 75 Years Later

On the 75th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear weapons explosion: The Trinity test near Alamogordo in 1945, KSFR News Director Tom Trowbridge spoke with a longtime New Mexico journalist...

Trinity’s Atomic Blast Changed the World

As the first atomic blast lit up the morning sky and scorched a vast desert landscape in south-central New Mexico, the scientists and engineers who had worked on this top-secret...

In their own words: Trinity at 75

On July 16, 1945 the first nuclear bomb exploded near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Trinity test marked the culmination of nearly four years of secret research led by an unprecedented...

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