the New Mexico desert sky was robin-egg blue, with wildflowers gently opening to the sun’s warmth. I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on ...

The plutonium bomb—nicknamed the Gadget—was set ... not been a recognition of the impact of the very first atomic detonation in New Mexico was really simply wrong,” says Representative ...

Oppenheimer inspects the base of the steel tower used to test the atomic bomb in New Mexico. Re-creating the Trinity Test—which melted the tower and seared the surrounding sand into jade green ...

Richard Garwin was a particle physicist and inventor with a lifelong mission to nudge the US government towards rational, ...

In May, 2025, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for WHO to address the health ...

Many scientists contributed but he was the one who, as a young physicist, designed the world’s most powerful weapon. He also advised a dozen presidents.

In 1957, a nuclear bomb accidentally fell from a plane in New Mexico, but it did not detonate, preventing a disaster. In 1958, a U.S. B-47 fighter jet accidentally dropped an atomic bomb over ...

Peter Lax, an innovator in applied mathematics who left Hungary during World War II and worked on U.S. atomic bomb ...

Ray Smith has been asked to provide info on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a short time compared ...

In 1951-52, however, Dr. Garwin, at the time an instructor at the University of Chicago and just a summer consultant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, designed the actual bomb ...

The Elders, a group founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007, are in Tokyo for the 80th anniversary of atomic bombings ...

While most of the world looked away, a new nuclear arms race has broken out between the US, Russia, and China, raising the ...