"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...

The “Trinity” test, as it was secretly known, was the first nuclear detonation by the American military, occurring on July 16, 1945. That test resulted in the distribution of radioactive ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

2, 1942, a group of 49 scientists gathered to conduct the criticality test. According to those who were there ... becoming the nation’s first national lab—Argonne National Laboratory. In order to ...

The renowned physicist had spent years at the very heart of Britain and the United States’ nuclear programmes.

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

He was a man of contradictions: a brilliant physicist, fuelled by self-loathing; a student of philosophy and mysticism, who longed to be an all-American hero. He was responsible for building the most ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very ... by 1945 some had figured out that they were in fact building an atomic bomb.

Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the ... during the scene of the world’s first atomic bomb test. “That scene alone was terrifying ...

After the Trinity test, she joined several of the top Manhattan Project scientists in signing ... In The Making of the Atomic Bomb, author Richard Rhodes describes Kitty Oppenheimer as a ...