A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.

Nuclear waste left over from US efforts to develop an atomic bomb from the 1940s and onwards put children living near St ...

Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to make nuclear weapons look like an unambiguous force of good—not of evil.

The former headquarters of the Manhattan Project, where the world's first atomic bomb was created, is now turning nuclear ...

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

Highlights this week include playwright Charles Randolph Wright’s hip hop-themed interracial love story and “The Gospel at ...

The hard work in Oak Ridge contributed to the research leading up to the Trinity Test, the very first deployment of a nuclear weapon in history.

The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New ...

People who spent their childhood in the 1940s, ’50s or ’60s living near Coldwater Creek in St. Louis County faced a ...

The two organizations will conduct research on cutting-edge defense and security technologies and seek to establish a Los ...