At 5:30 a.m. mountain war time on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon detonated over a flat, arid stretch of New Mexico desert. The Trinity test, as it was code-named, confirmed that an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, I have been asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a very short time ...

Wendy Wintersteen is president of Iowa State University. Watching the young men and women sailors scramble aboard the new USS Iowa submarine as ship sponsor Christie Vilsack announced, "Board our boat ...

In Part 1 of this series, I recalled being asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was so successful. I compared the timelines for the X-10 Graphite Reactor (nine months) to the ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced plans to turn land that previously housed aspects of the Manhattan Project into a 1 GW solar farm. For the uninitiated, the Manhattan Project was a ...

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has been a lifeline for some people and families exposed to toxins linked to decades-old nuclear weapons tests, but advocates say more people deserve ...

President Donald Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense project will require a whole-of-government effort on par with the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, according to a Space Force ...

This story was updated to add information. Barbara Scollin, great niece of Major Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality ...