This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the Southern New Mexico desert. The test, which sent a giant mushroom cloud ...

Recently, I have been asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a very short time compared to what folks envision can be done with a similar project in ...

China is racing to build a self-sufficient artificial intelligence stack, from cutting edge chips to nationwide deployment, ...

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 ...

Companies like Kairos Power are building new types of reactors with the encouragement of the Trump administration, but their ...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is working to clean the environmental footprint left behind by the Cold War. This includes cleaning contaminated land in East Tennessee ...

The big thinkers at Aperture reveal the hidden and dark aspects of the Manhattan Project.

Director-producer Lois Lipman’s documentary First We Bombed New Mexico will likely at least do one thing: It will break your heart. And the injustice the film depicts will also probably enrage you.

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

Frontier-Kemper-Tutor-Perini JV on Feb. 3 landed the $1.8 billion Manhattan Tunnel Project contract from the Gateway Development Commission (GDC) Board of Commissioners, which authorized the notice to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In the closing weeks of World War II’s ...