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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project‘s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is commemorating Oak Ridge’s role in bringing World War II to an end.
At approximately 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexican desert. It was bright, hot, and loud. Scientists and military personnel crouched nearby in ...
Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan to force the unconditional surrender that ended World War II. The fearsome weapons were created by ...
An atomic bomb test at Bikini Lagoon. Marshall Islands, July 1946. Today is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and the first use of an atomic bomb in war, in this case by the United ...
There are no reports that Oppenheimer himself came to visit Daghlian, though less than a week before the young man's death, on Sept. 9, the Manhattan Project director joined Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves as ...
US efforts to develop artificial intelligence systems and the nuclear-energy infrastructure needed to power them are ...
Can a play influence public perception of our shared atomic history enough to shift the conversation away from a presumed nuclear “renaissance” and into a more critical, life-protective examination of ...
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