Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the birthplace of the bomb, the legacy of the Manhattan Project is still framed as ...

We must rid ourselves of nuclear weapons or lose life as we know it on this planet, the Hampton Roads Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’s Rev. Julia Dorsey Loomis and Steve Baggarly write ...

Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to ...

English posed in the lobby for a photo with a life-sized cardboard cutout of “Miss Atomic Bomb.” Friedrichs jokes it’s his favorite of all the photos he’s collected of her in 25 years.

Scientists and workmen rig the world's first atomic bomb to raise it up into a 100-foot tower at the Trinity Test Site in the desert near Alamagordo, N.M., in July 1945.

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On July 16, 1945, the first successful test of the atomic bomb was conducted in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The explosion in the desert equaled 20,000 tons of TNT.