Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project‘s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is ...

In July 1945, as J. Robert Oppenheimer and the other researchers of the Manhattan Project prepared to test their brand-new atomic bomb in a New Mexico desert, they knew relatively little about how ...

The United States National Park Service has launched an initiative to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those bombs were developed as ...

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the Southern New Mexico desert. The test, which sent a giant mushroom cloud ...

In the pre-dawn dark of July 16, 1945, a searing flash lit up the New Mexico desert. A shockwave followed, rippling outward across the silent plains. This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear ...

The Trinity test—the detonation of the world’s first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project. Two years ago, the film Oppenheimer premiered in theaters and became an ...

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