The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists now says humanity is a metaphorical 85 seconds to global disaster.

On July 16, 1945, an enormous column of smoke rose up to 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) high above a remote part of the Jornada Del Muerto Desert, New Mexico, preceded by a tremendous flash that lit up ...

Manhattan Project scientists working on the Thin Man plutonium gun assembly. Two atomic bombs nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, effectively ...

The Trinity test—the detonation of the world’s first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project. Two years ago, the film Oppenheimer premiered in theaters and became an ...