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

Jeff Colvin, a research physicist and author of “Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War,” will give a presentation on the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, a Harvard-education theoretical physicist, was tasked by the U.S. government in 1942 with leading the ...

Sandy Charles looks up at a statue of Gen. Leslie Groves as another of J. Robert Oppenheimer looks on, Aug. 16, 2025 at ...

HIROSHIMA—Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako laid white flowers and paid their respects on June 19 at the Cenotaph for the Victims of the Atomic Bomb at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park here.

When the American military dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, 80 years ago on Aug. 9, 1945, the city was completely devastated — more than 40,000 people were instantly killed by the ...

Five body measurements-standing height, body weight, sitting height, chest circumference and intercristal diameter-of 18-year-old atomic bomb survivors exposed in utero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were ...