When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the intense light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history ...

An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...

“It’s about being able to step back and look at your result. Does it make sense?” says Stefan Funk, a particle physicist who ...

On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age, with the successful ... and was detonated in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Overseeing the project was US ...

Oscar-nominated 'Oppenheimer' suggests that the New Mexico test site for the atomic bomb was deserted before scientists arrived there. But a documentary called 'First We Bombed New Mexico' sheds ...

On July 16, 1945, Oppenheimer witnessed the first explosion of an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert. "We knew the world would not be the same," he said. Within a month, two atomic bombs were ...

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At Los Alamos, New Mexico, the uranium was used to develop the first atomic bomb in a feverish race that brought together dozens of scientists. Howe offered Albertas wide-open spaces as a test ...

Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The film shows the clandestine project ...

The movie focuses on J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the assembly and testing of the first-ever atomic bomb at Los Alamos in New Mexico. In several scenes, the physicist, who is becoming the ...