J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the most brilliant physicists of the 20th century. As the leader of the Manhattan Project, he helped create the world’s first atomic bomb. The weapon would end World ...

He denounced America's enemies, left his home country, and became a citizen of the United States. So what was the FBI's ...

Visitors to the Historic Wendover Airfield can now see how crews loaded some of the first atomic weapons during World War II, thanks to a newly reconstructed loading cradle installed at the site's ...

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82', was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

The filmmakers behind the new PBS documentary “Bombshell” spoke to NYU students and faculty after a screening in the Arthur L ...

A former editor of Politico, the author will talk about his new book and the history of the atomic bomb at an event at Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse, where ...

In 1939, German scientists Otto Hahn (later a Nobel laureate in Chemistry) and Fritz Strassmann discovered the effect of ...

They say, 'Necessity is the mother of invention,' and in many ways, that's true. There are many motivations to invent, some to make money and some because of curiousity. But all inventions have only ...

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Capt. Robert A Lewis wrote the account during and in the immediate aftermath of dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, ...

Analytical chemist Friedrich Strassmann played a crucial role in discovering nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, but his principled opposition to Nazi ideology nearly destroyed his career ...

More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines ...