The Manhattan Project was a towering achievement, one of the great stories of human effort and accomplishment. Yet the Trump ...

I always believed that the atomic bomb should and would be used as soon as available. In addition, I had the impression that ...

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

We’re still living an atomic nightmare Eighty years after the first test, why was there so little dissent at Los Alamos — and what does it mean today?

Wesley Burris remembers waking to a morning of potent, white light and panic as the planet’s first atomic bomb went off in a test in the Jornada del Muerto desert near his family’s Southern New Mexico ...

The bomb (part 2): the atomic town Our podcast on science and technology. The second episode of our four-part series on the past, present and future of nuclear weapons ...

Eighty years after the first atomic weapons tests at Los Alamos, humanity has yet to fully reckon with the power of mass annihilation.

Next week marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Garrett Graff about his book "The Devil Reached Toward The Sky," which recounts the bomb's creation.

Eighty years ago this week, Manhattan Project workers at the top-secret bomb development lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico were rushing to get the ...

The triumphs and failures of the men and women who created the world's first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. This the story of the men and women who worked on a ...