July 16 is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in 1945, 12 young girls attending a summer camp in Ruidoso, New Mexico, were jolted out of their bunks ...

Experts warned at a panel discussion Wednesday that the threat of nuclear war is increasing — but unlike in years past, many ...

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later, the University of Chicago — the site of the first self-sustaining nuclear ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls. Now, a new arms race is heating up.

The Trinity test—the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project ...

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.

In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an ...

On July 16, 1945, and in the days and weeks that followed, newspapers in America missed what may well have been the scoop of the first half of the 20th century: The birth of the atomic bomb in the ...

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 ...

Author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles a diverse range of players in his latest book about the first atomic bomb used in warfare.

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