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The wives of the Pajarito Plateau are said to have paused to assess the changes in their husbands as the men returned late to dinner and supped with murky preoccupation in the weeks leading up to the ...

In the pre-dawn dark of July 16, 1945, a searing flash lit up the New Mexico desert. A shockwave followed, rippling outward across the silent plains. This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Wednesday marked 80 years since the United States detonated the first ever atomic bomb as Robert Oppenheimer famously conducted the ‘Trinity Test’ in New Mexico. Science ...

There have been plenty of books and movies about how the Manhattan Project brought together scientists and engineers to create the nuclear bomb. Most of them don’t have a lot of technical substance, ...

The history of nuclear weapons testing is a complex and interesting one. Here's the story of the U.S.' nuclear testing program and why it stopped.