Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the birthplace of the bomb, the legacy of the Manhattan Project is still framed as ...

More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons program.

Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working on a multiyear project to remove the elevated radiation wastes from the Niagara site and ultimately leave the 191 acres suitable for industrial use.

Over 35 attendees came to listen to North Central Texas College History Professor Charles Adams’ lecture on the making of the atomic bomb and its usage Wednesday, the first open-to-the-public lecture ...

The Trinity test—the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project.

A secret government initiative, called The Manhattan Project, saw the creation of the atomic bomb under J. Robert Oppenheimer. Two atomic bombs were dropped on Japanese cities to end WWII.

Eight decades after the Manhattan Project’s Trinity Test, generations of New Mexicans’ who’ve suffered health problems from the nuclear fallout will soon be eligible to receive compensation.

A historical document is up for auction through Bonhams: Einstein's most thorough statement on his involvement with the atomic bomb, expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000 when bidding ...

In August 1942, the US officially launches a top-secret programme to develop an atomic bomb. The project, which had been approved the previous year, comes to be known as the "Manhattan Project".

The United States had dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, killing more than 100,000 people and crushing much of the city Aug. 6, 1945. Nagasaki was hit three days later.