Before the Trinity Test in July 1945, some of the world's leading physicists considered an unsettling possibility: could the ...

Greg Spriggs, a nuclear-weapons physicist, breaks down nuclear-test scenes in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" for realism.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 81 years ago, the first nuclear bomb exploded. The Trinity test, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project in the New ...

Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when conditions return to normal. The Trinity nuclear test in 1945 left behind such ...

About 141 pounds of highly enriched uranium-235 was used to create "Little Boy," the first nuclear-fission bomb used in ...

Extreme, transient conditions produced by nuclear detonations can generate solid-state phases inaccessible to conventional synthesis,” wrote the researchers.