It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as waves of destructive energy obliterated two cites. It was a decisive move that helped ...

A mockup of the "Gadget" that was detonated during the Trinity Test in 1945, marking the world's first atomic explosion, is on display on July 15, 2020, at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and ...

It was the early hours of 16 July 1945, and Robert Oppenheimer was waiting in a control bunker for a moment that would change the world. Around 10km (6 miles) away, the world's first atomic bomb test, ...

Manhattan project aimed at producing atomic bombs to compete with Axis countries such as Nazi Germany. The research team led by Robert Oppenheimer, who was in charge of science, will finally conduct ...

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 ...