Watch how the first atomic bomb test unfolded, as scientists pushed the limits of physics in a race to end the war. Behind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 14—In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...

IOWA (KTIV) - He was a poor farm boy from Iowa who went on to change the world by refining the elusive ingredient needed to make the atomic bomb. This edition of “We The People” focuses on Iowan ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945 opened the door to the dangerous nuclear arms ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

WENDOVER — Visitors to the Historic Wendover Airfield can now see how crews loaded some of the first atomic weapons during World War II, thanks to a newly reconstructed loading cradle installed at the ...