When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...

Eighty years ago this week, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his crew ushered in the nuclear age, when they successfully tested the first ever nuclear explosion in the New Mexico desert.

The first atomic bomb, nicknamed ‘The Gadget’, was launched at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 1945. Led ...

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 ...

Christopher Nolan's smash-hit film Oppenheimer is now available on Netflix – and is swiftly making its way up the charts. One ...

Real footage captured of the trinity test leaves viewers divided over the accuracy of the events depicted in Christopher ...

In the 1950s, the U.S. experimented with carrying a nuclear reactor on a plane, but stopped short of actually using nuclear ...

July 16 is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in 1945, 12 young girls attending a summer camp in Ruidoso, New Mexico, were jolted out of their bunks ...

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

Christopher Nolan did not use CGI to create the effect of Oppenheimer's atomic bomb explosion scene, with the film having been recently added to Netflix ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls. Now, a new arms race is heating up.

Two new renditions of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” memorialize the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test ...