Nearly 80 years ago, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, heralding in a new age of warfare and anxiety. Albert Einstein, considered the father ...

Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves: After arriving at the Alamogordo base camp on July 15, a brief review of the situation with Oppenheimer revealed that we might be in trouble. The bomb had been assembled and ...

Eighty years ago this week, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his crew ushered in the nuclear age, when they successfully ...

Eighty years after the first test, why was there so little dissent at Los Alamos — and what does it mean today?

At various points of the public event, the Nobel laureates and nuclear experts looked back at the Manhattan Project ...

Today in History for Aug. 2: In 1100, King William II of England was killed in a hunting accident.

As historian Karen Brodkin tells it, socialism was “hegemonic” in American Jewish life before the Cold War. Not in the sense ...