In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...

It is 80 years since the first nuclear weapon test – codenamed Trinity – detonated above the desert in New Mexico. Today the ...

Oak Ridge researchers are converting nuclear waste into components for targeted alpha therapy, a cancer treatment that ...

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 ...

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

The Trinity test—the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project ...

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

A Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the ...

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.

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

Generations of survivors of the world’s first nuclear bomb test have been excluded from any federal compensation.

More Americans are now eligible for compensation for health problems linked to radiation exposure from the atomic weapons ...