A new slim volume examines the history of the science behind the atomic age. Craig Kenny looks at this tale of terror ...

Schmidt/McDonald Ranch House (2 miles away): The government took over the Schmidt/McDonald ranch in 1942, and scientists and military personnel later used it as the assembly site for the Trinity test ...

Explore the Trinity nuclear test's historical significance, its role in WWII, and the ongoing implications of nuclear weapons in today's geopolitical landscape.

It was 80 years ago on July 16 when a mysterious flash of light and a massive explosion rumbled in the New Mexico desert. Only a few people knew about it at the time, but the United States just ...

The mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at the Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The congressional spending bill expands and reauthorizes a compensation ...

“It was a little unnerving between the noise, the duration of the noise, and the mushroom cloud plume of smoke,” Joe Donohue, also of Mashpee, told Boston 25 News.

The explosive scene on the golf course Wednesday afternoon, which fireworks exploding on a green, resulted in a mushroom cloud of smoke rising high above the Cape Cod town.

Uranium enrichment concentrates one specific type of the atom to create a substance that can generate massive amounts of energy.

The mushroom cloud from the “Ivy Mike” nuclear test over Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952. Image: Los Alamos National Laboratory At least 14 nuclear scientists are ...

Every conflict in the Middle East has its senators—Tom Cottons—who promise us a mushroom cloud. In Libya, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, it looked pretty good.