Eighty years after the first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico, we're still feeling the political and scientific ...

A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his opposition to war has been put up for auction, with a guide price of between ...

Garwin (S.M. ’48, Ph.D. ’49) worked with Enrico Fermi at the University before designing the first hydrogen bomb in Los ...

An ambitious project to weaken or divert hurricanes generated decades of suspicion and disagreement. What did we learn – and ...

Nichols’ working and personal relationship with Oppenheimer during and after the war was of utmost respect and friendship; however, serious security issues during and after the Manhattan Project were ...

In late 1950 and 1951, Stanislaw Ulam and Edward Teller, two scientists who had worked on the Manhattan Project, started to propose real ideas for the first two-stage nuclear weapons.

Arthur Ernest Scott, 98, of Poughkeepsie, NY, peacefully passed away on April 7 at the Hospice House in Hyde Park, NY. Born on March 26, 1927, in ...

Afterwards, he recalls, none other than Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb and a key member of the Manhattan Project, invited him into his office for a chat.

I mean, Edward Teller, the famous Manhattan Project scientist, he was advising Reagan on this, and he had this idea for this really ambitious concept called Excalibur, which he would detonate ...

Szilard was an important member of the Manhattan Project but, almost alone, came to regret what came out of it. Lynskey writes, “Of all the men responsible for ushering nuclear achievements into ...

The 33rd Annual Edward Teller Lecture and Banquet will be held Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Columbia County Expo Center, 212 Partnership Drive in Grovetown, Georgia. Citizens for Nuclear Technology ...

Edward Teller, a Hungarian-American physicist, played a crucial role in the Manhattan Project and championed the creation of the Hydrogen bomb, forever changing the landscape of nuclear weapons ...