In the summer of 1942, Los Alamos, New Mexico, became the center of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. Army’s secret mission to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atomic bombs work via a process called nuclear fission that involves atom splitting. Shortly after scientists discovered nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With "Oppenheimer" hitting theaters July 21, many are remembering J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in developing the atomic bomb ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...