Ypsilanti Township’s board says it will join a potential lawsuit opposing federal plans to dump lightly-radioactive soil in a ...

thorium and other waste products from the Manhattan Project, the code name for the program to build the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945. The Missouri Independent, MuckRock and The ...

By World War II, his drive to defeat Germany would propel him to direct the Manhattan Project — the top-secret development of an American atomic bomb — at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life. This column gives insight ...

For example, the Tsar bomb was one of the cleanest nuclear weapons ever detonated, Wellerstein said, because its explosive ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project ... where the Trinity Test of the first atomic bomb was conducted in 1945.

The first order of business was deciding where to house over 7,000 artifacts, including human remains. The bureau ended up ...

But numerous other conflicts garner far less attention as they grind on around the globe – testing the sense of those caught ...

In the early 1940s, Harshaw Chemical started producing uranium compounds for the development of the first atomic bomb.

A judge has granted a temporary restraining order to Detroit-area communities near a landfill over the shipment of World War ...

MOSCOW, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Russia will not test a nuclear weapon as long as the United States refrains from testing, ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.