The trailer for the book "Ghosts of Hiroshima," narrated by Martin Sheen, is here. It will be made into a film by James ...

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

Explore the Trinity nuclear test's historical significance, its role in WWII, and the ongoing implications of nuclear weapons ...

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

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 ...

The nuclear era began 80 years ago today, with the Trinity Test. Preparations for this day in history, July 16, 1945, began in January that year. Even without a field test, Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, ...

The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

As Republican pressure on education mounts, the fight over the scholarship reveals a broader effort to turn public service ...

The state was immediately changed by Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project's detonation of the world's first atomic weapon, ...

A 1952 law that President Harry S. Truman opposed, calling it a step backward, now underpins many actions by the Trump ...

Eighty years ago today, the Trinity Test media coverage was a sham, with at least one reporter complicit in spreading the Manhattan Project's ammo-dump lie.