The Department of Energy has started to post online the internal history of the first atomic bombs. It was commissioned by Lt. Gen Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, which managed the ...

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

The motion picture "Oppenheimer" is the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. The movie opened in ...

On August 6, 1945, the sky above the Japanese city of Hiroshima opened. A blinding flash, then a deafening sonic boom. An entire city pulverized in seconds. Thus began the nuclear age. Today, 80 years ...

Tick. Tick. Tick. Eighty years ago this month, the doomsday clock jolted to life. Nothing was the same after Aug. 6, 1945. On that date, the first of two American atomic bombs went off in Hiroshima, ...

At first the atom served military purposes but gradually began to be used for civilian needs In the second series viewers will learn how Russian scientists made discoveries in nuclear energy how this ...

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The Bohr model, introduced by Danish physicist Niels Bohr in 1913, was a key step on the journey to understand atoms. Ancient Greek thinkers already believed that matter was composed of tiny basic ...

Matt Ward was doing book research in the Monmouth County Historical Association’s archives, seeking Sandy Hook photos, when he came across a photo that stopped him in his tracks. It depicted Christy ...