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

But New Mexico was left out, despite the state being home to the world's first atomic bomb testing and explosion. Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, has made it ...

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

12,580) is unlike any other community in New Mexico—or indeed the U.S. Birthplace of the atomic bomb and still the nation’s center for advanced thermonuclear studies, it is the mid-century ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 July 21 theatrical release of the film “Oppenheimer,” focused on the life of a prominent American nuclear physicist, should help to remind us of how badly the development of modern weapons has ...

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

The vivid portrait of the “father of the atomic bomb” is a brilliant achievement ... who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Naum Kazhdan/The New York Times The movie ...