The desert can hold many secrets. The desert near Los Alamos in New Mexico just after World War 2 held perhaps the biggest ...

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On July 16, 1945, the first successful test of the atomic bomb was conducted in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The explosion in the desert equaled 20,000 tons of TNT.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as waves of destructive energy obliterated two cites.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as waves of destructive energy obliterated two cites.

It’s a weighty comparison, especially in a state still grappling with the environmental and social impacts of the atomic bomb, which exposed unsuspecting residents of Southern New Mexico to ...

Los Alamos, which is best known for being behind the atomic bomb’s Manhattan Project and Trinity test site in New Mexico, is federally funded and part of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Ultimately, the only member of Los Alamos to register dissent was Joseph Rotblat, who quietly resigned on ethical grounds after learning in November 1944 that there was no active Nazi atomic bomb ...

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Nov 21 (Reuters) - The chief engineer for nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is joining nuclear fusion startup Fuse, the company said Thursday. James Owen spent over 28 years at ...