July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

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

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 ...

China has in recent months tested a new destructive weapon that has the power to change the face of war completely.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the Doomsday Clock are the closest they’ve ever been to midnight.

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery ...

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

“Trump has put pressure on a seeming plethora of Asian trading partners to buy more U.S. LNG,” said Tim Daiss, at the APAC ...

When Pat Fitch started working on artificial intelligence in the 1990s, he concluded it was a waste of time. It now takes up a big chunk of his day. About two years ago, Fitch, the deputy director of ...

Stopping Iran from ever returning to uranium enrichment is top of mind for U.S. non-proliferation expert David Albright.The ...

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