RUPERT — As another Veterans’ Day slips by, it is easy for Atomic Veterans to also go by, unheralded and unsupported. North Rupert resident Garry DuFour is tirelessly working to remedy that, but it is ...

OPINION: As a new nuclear arms race looms, our atomic veterans still demand justice. Read more at The Nevada Independent.

In the 1950s and '60s, Wayne McCormick was haunted by nightmares nearly every night. But when his wife, Agnes, asked him what was wrong, he'd lie. "I'd say, 'In the Navy, I was in the water with ...

Thousands of veterans exposed to cancer-causing radiation during atomic tests conducted decades ago could find it easier to get compensation under a new regulation aimed at giving them the same ...

Exposure to two atomic bomb tests after World War II earned Navy veteran Duke L. Williams and his colleagues the title ‘Atomic veterans.’ But he says it also left him with cancers requiring three ...

The Veterans Health Administration then formally recognized atomic veterans. They were then eligible to receive VA medical treatment. The first atomic bomb was tested on July 16, 1945, in Alamogordo, ...

ALBANY - Members of Oregon's Atomic Veterans organization will host a ceremony and celebration Sunday to remember Atomic Veterans Day. All military veterans and their families are invited to attend ...