The first atomic bomb ever exploded was a test device ... trucked the five-ton mechanism from their secret laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, 230 miles south, to a place known to the scientists ...

Most people were silent." Los Alamos National Laboratory After the first atomic bomb explosion (seen here from 10,000 yards away, in a time series from .006 seconds to .081 seconds after ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... Finally a lab for the design and construction of the bomb was built at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The cost of these Manhattan Project installations ...

Science and the military converged under a cloak of secrecy at Los Alamos National Laboratory ... out that they were in fact building an atomic bomb.

On the high New Mexico mesa where the town of Los ... bomb. The wives of the atomic scientists did not know what their husbands were doing, but they did know that there was no school in Los Alamos ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico ... behind the men who gave us the atomic bomb. Perhaps the best known ...

Known as the Trinity test, the first atomic bomb was tested on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert — more than 200 miles south of Los Alamos. Oppenheimer chose the code name ...

The first trailer for 'Oppenheimer,' Christopher Nolan's film about “the father of the atomic bomb,” was released ... of the biggest moral issues at Los Alamos: Unleashing an all-powerful ...

During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory ... the construction of the world’s first atomic bomb, Oppenheimer offers advice on advancing ...

The vivid portrait of the “father of the atomic bomb” is a brilliant achievement ... the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Naum Kazhdan/The ...