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Science historian Peder Anker’s book brings to light the stories of African Americans and others affected by the atomic bomb.
Robert Downey Jr might be more associated with comic books, but these five traditional books had a significant impact on him.
The story of Trinity Site begins with the formation of the Manhattan Project in June of 1942. The project was given overall ...
Introducing “The Bomb”, our new four-part podcast series on the past, present and future of America’s nuclear stockpile ...
Eighty years after the first atomic weapons tests at Los Alamos, humanity has yet to fully reckon with the power of mass annihilation.
The ghost of physicist Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), who led the development of the U.S. atomic bomb, is the main character ...
Oppenheimer was first a brilliant scientist, then a war hero, then a political traitor, then a nobody, then a martyr, now a ...
Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to make nuclear weapons look like an unambiguous force of good—not of evil.
Benny Safdie portrayed scientist Edward Teller in 2023's "Oppenheimer," but what happened to the physicist and chemical ...
When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...
The 80th anniversary of the Trinity Site test of the world’s first atomic bomb was marked this past week. The test at Trinity ...