The atomic explosion that struck Nagasaki in 1945 can be traced back to the Hanford Site, an unsuspecting desert in ...

US President-elect Donald Trump has unveiled an ambitious initiative dubbed the 'Department of Government Efficiency' (DOGE), ...

It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the Manhattan Project scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the site of the world's first industrial-scale plutonium reactor, known as the “B ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very existence and the work that went on there — was kept from Americans during World War II. Skip To Content Join the Conversation ...

I’ve been reading a lot about Los Alamos, the Manhattan Project and the Trinity Test, the 70th anniversary of which was July 16. Here’s my story from last week; please take a few minutes to ...

Though Los Alamos was just one of many sites dedicated to the Manhattan Project, it was the most remote, and the most secret. Located in the desert, it has mountain views and vivid sunsets.

With undisguised pride, Los Alamos, N.M., the birthplace of the atomic bomb, announced on Oct. 2 the arrival of a new member ...

test as part of the Manhattan Project, Trinity Site near Los Alamos, NM, July 16, 1945. What I did not know, and what Oppenheimer did not tell me, was that he was chairman of a very small group of ...

Here are the stories of just six of the hundreds of women that made essential contributions to the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. Chemist Lilli Hornig first came to the United States in 1933 ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Naum Kazhdan/The New York Times The movie is based on “American Prometheus: The Triumph ...