ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Transported in the backseat of a blacked-out Plymouth sedan was the culmination of years of feverish work — a hefty plutonium core that would soon be used to trigger the world’s ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the scientific effort that created the world’s first atomic bomb during World War II. The Trinity test in 1945 produced an explosion equal to nearly 25,000 tons of TNT, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 14—In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945 opened the door to the dangerous nuclear arms ...

On August 6, 1945, the atomic mission against Hiroshima began. The primary strike aircraft was the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

Shortly after dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, Capt. Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, wrote in his notebook that the clouds below him were dispersing and the weather looked good for the rest of the ...

In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site is ...