Material formed in the wake of the first atomic bomb test contains a strange material that is ordered but that is not a standard crystal.
The gun-like design of the Little Boy bomb was effectively the last of its kind
Images of the incredible individuals behind the Manhattan Project and their lives at Los Alamos.
Researchers found the strange material inside a piece of red trinitite, a glass-like amalgam formed by the blast's intense heat and pressure
Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.
On July 16, 1945, the United States Army detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert.
Images of the incredible individuals behind the Manhattan Project and their lives at Los Alamos.
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On July 16, 1945, the United States Army detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert.
Eerily beautiful pictures from an atomic bomb test by LIFE's Loomis Dean, made in the Nevada desert in 1955 at the height of the Cold War.
Manhattan Project scientists and engineers in Los Alamos, NM designed and developed a number of innovations in the field of electronics.
Ever wondered how two bombs might change everything? Remember Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The US dropped atomic bombs on these Japanese cities in the last phases of World War II, creating devastating fame. On August 6,
Images of the incredible individuals behind the Manhattan Project and their lives at Los Alamos.
Witnessing Detonation: How the Atomic Bomb Haunted J. Robert Oppenheimer Oppenheimer: A Man of Genius and Regret - Hero or Villain?
Images of the incredible individuals behind the Manhattan Project and their lives at Los Alamos.
Ah, America: the land where conflating violence and freedom are a way of life. In addition to being the home of baseball, junk food, and some damn good music, America holds the distinction for being the only country in the world to have wiped out hundreds of thousands of people by using nuclear weapons in […]
The oldest known “quasicrystal” made by humans has been discovered at the New Mexico site of the 1945 Trinity bomb test.
Atomic Bomb Facts: did you know that... Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not radioactive anymore mostly because the bombs didn't touch the ground but were detonated in the air?
The Manhattan Project was started in response to fears that German scientists had been working on a weapon using nuclear technology since the 1930s.
U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy , his wife, and Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry cut a cake made in the shape of a mushroom cloud formed by the explosion of an atom bomb at a reception for...
A hydrogen bomb is different than a regular atomic bomb, like the ones the US dropped on Japan near the end of World War II. Collectively, the two A-bombs that the US detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 200,000 people.
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A LOOK AT HISTORY We think that the discovery of nuclear energy is very fascinating because we learned that great energy can even come from very small atomic masses, that even though scientists bel…
Atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The devastation led to Japan’s surrender and brought an end to World War II.
