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 ...

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project yields explosive results as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

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?

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

Emerging dangers are reshaping the landscape of nuclear deterrence and increasing the threat of mutual annihilation.

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

The current attacks on the U.S. system of scientific research will have real and debilitating consequences for our nation and its international position that will not be easily turned around ...