At 5:30 a.m. mountain war time on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon detonated over a flat, arid stretch of New ...

He denounced America's enemies, left his home country, and became a citizen of the United States. So what was the FBI's ...

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82', was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

A former editor of Politico, the author will talk about his new book and the history of the atomic bomb at an event at ...

The filmmakers behind the new PBS documentary “Bombshell” spoke to NYU students and faculty after a screening in the Arthur L ...

In 1939, German scientists Otto Hahn (later a Nobel laureate in Chemistry) and Fritz Strassmann discovered the effect of ...

Most accounts of the Manhattan Project tell a familiar story: American scientists relentlessly racing to design and build the fission bombs that would ultimately fall on Japan. A neglected chapter of ...

Capt. Robert A Lewis wrote the account during and in the immediate aftermath of dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, ...

Analytical chemist Friedrich Strassmann played a crucial role in discovering nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, ...

I’ve asked GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and other large language models (LLMs) to help me construct a nuclear weapon. All of them said no. Let’s be clear, my lack of knowledge is not the ...

Summary The Doomsday Clock seeks to capture the severity of the existential threats facing humankind, as understood by the ...

Newly released memo urges Los Alamos to accelerate plutonium pit production as critics raise safety and environmental concerns.