In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic bomb in New Mexico.

The Trinity test wasn’t conducted on barren, uninhabited land. Half a million people lived within 150 miles of the explosion, some as close as 12 miles away. Eric S. Singer July 16 is the 80th ...

With decades of experience in national security, Jill Hruby joins the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board to help confront ...

The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

Tremendous progress has been made in reducing global nuclear stockpiles and nuclear risks, but we are now heading in the wrong direction. Poised at the beginning of a new, complex, and dangerous ...

Eighty years ago today, the Trinity Test media coverage was a sham, with at least one reporter complicit in spreading the Manhattan Project's ammo-dump lie.

The Nobel Laureate Assembly convenes the world’s foremost experts on nuclear weapons at a critical moment in global security, and is designed to produce actionable, pragmatic recommendations. The ...

Wrangling over the construction of nuclear power in New York State has revealed the priorities of some of the state’s biggest environmental lobbies. For them, creating bureaucratic procedures they can ...