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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This day in 1945 marked the first detonation of a U.S. atomic weapon under the Manhatten Project in the so-called Trinity test. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the director of the ...

Writing about nuclear war is difficult because it is easy. J Robert Oppenheimer himself, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, set the tone with his paraphrasing of the Bhagavad Gita after the ...

Downwinder Paul Pino heads through the SALA Event Center toward the screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo ...

This visit to the historic Trinity Site traces the origins of the atomic age. Though the Schmidt/McDonald assembly house was closed due to weather, the experience captures the raw atmosphere of the ...