1. This is not a concise, formal military report but an attempt to recite what I would have told you if you had been here on my return from New Mexico. 2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote ...

The renowned physicist had spent years at the very heart of Britain and the United States’ nuclear programmes.

Oscar-nominated 'Oppenheimer' suggests that the New Mexico test site for the atomic bomb was deserted before scientists arrived there. But a documentary called 'First We Bombed New Mexico' sheds ...

On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age, with the successful testing of the most powerful weapon known to man. "Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot ...

Early on the morning of July 16, 1945, the deserts of New Mexico exploded in a colossal, unspeakably brilliant fireball, ushering in the nuclear age at a test site called Trinity. For years, the ...

HIROSHIMA—The film “Oppenheimer,” a biopic about the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb,” opened in the United States to rave reviews in July but hasn’t been shown in Japan ...