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, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of ...

Manhattan, Mayson, Maud. One of these is synonymous with the race to build an atomic bomb during the first half of the 1940s.

Credit: Eastern Kentucky University Tritium, a key component in DT fusion, was first discovered in 1934 by a research team led by experimental physicist Ernest Rutherford. Rutherford was a central ...

James Cook, the former British and European super-middleweight boxing champion, who has died of cancer aged 66, was an underrated performer with a relatively low public profile despite a ...

James Vowles has revealed that he has "helicopters on standby" during the British Grand Prix weekend as his wife, Rachel, is expecting their second child any day.

He is still a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, but now, according to the government of the Netherlands, he is no longer Dutch. He is, he said in a show of considerable understatement, “extremely ...

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