In never-before-seen photographs, explore the secret U.S. facility and home to the Manhattan Project scientists who developed the first nuclear weapon Photographs by Minesh Bacrania By Jennie ...

The first atomic bomb ever exploded was a test device, insouciantly nicknamed the Gadget. In mid-July 1945, American scientists had trucked the five-ton mechanism from their secret laboratory at ...

On the high New Mexico mesa where the town of Los Alamos now stands, there was once a school for boys. In 1942 the U.S. Army bought Los Alamos Ranch School, folded it up and asked the alumni not ...

Atomic Bomb Project employees having lunch at Los Alamos. Though food was often in scant supply, residents made the best of life in their isolated community by putting on plays and organizing ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the man who built the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, taught in the summers of 1931 and 1934 at the UM Symposium on Theoretical Physics, among other local connections.

Early on the morning of July 16, 1945, the deserts of New Mexico exploded in a colossal, unspeakably brilliant fireball, ushering in the nuclear age at a test site called Trinity. For years, the ...

Albuquerque has close ties to the birth of the Atomic Age sitting between Los Alamos to the north, where scientists created the first atomic weapons, and the Trinity Site to the south, where they ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The National Nuclear Security Administration field office that oversees the lab lost nine staff members, according to documents reviewed by The New ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: While in Los Alamos, don't miss the Bradbury Science Museum, which showcases the history and work of Los Alamos National Laboratory; and the Manhattan Project National ...