In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and oversaw the first successful atomic bomb test in 1945, ...

July 16 is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in 1945, 12 young girls attending a summer camp in Ruidoso, New Mexico, were jolted out of their bunks ...

The blinding burst of light from a nuclear detonation follows, yet it quickly fades into an unexpectedly small mushroom cloud ...

Serhii Plokhy’s The Nuclear Age is both a history of nuclear armament and a homily to its dangers. Like almost everything ...

With New Mexico being the birthplace of the atomic bomb, it only makes sense that our state’s national labs are also ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. Even after the renowned physicist Hans ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — When a flash of light beamed from the arid New Mexico desert early on July 16, 1945, residents of the historic Hispanic village of Tularosa felt windows shake and heard dishes ...

Japan's atomic bomb survivors declared that nuclear weapons cannot coexist with humans, as they gathered in Hiroshima to ...

Eighty years ago, a weapon was used which would transform modern warfare and the entire world forever. Hiroshima, in Japan, was the target of the first ever nuclear weapon, dropped by the US Air Force ...

The rapid development of long-distance war drones has scared Russia into installing protection nets much further away from ...