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 ...

The US government is rushing nuclear reactor deployment on federal sites to fuel its global AI race. But it may come at considerable costs and safety risks.

At various points of the public event, the Nobel laureates and nuclear experts looked back at the Manhattan Project ...

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

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.

Tremendous progress has been made in reducing global nuclear stockpiles and nuclear risks, but we are now heading in the ...

We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...