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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four museums currently have exhibits regarding J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb. July 16, 1945. Seventy-eight years ago to be exact, the world’s first atomic bomb was ...

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site is ...

This July 16, 1945, file photo shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M. (AP Photo/File) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico Attorney General ...

HIROSHIMA--Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her ...

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 ...