The bomb was no threat to be set off since "the plutonium was separate from the bomb casing and the explosives that caused the implosion," Stephen Schwartz, the author of Atomic Audit: The Costs ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

They designed two bombs, one using uranium (called "Little Boy") and one using plutonium ("Fat Man"). By early 1945, the plants at Oak Ridge and Hanford had produced enough raw material for testing.

Britain’s Trident nuclear missiles are the backbone of its nuclear force. The problem? Britain doesn’t even own the ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

SRS Watch is a non-profit organization working on sound policies and projects by the U.S. Department of Energy, inclduing oppositio n to the proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant. Partially finished ...

A wildlife corridor plans to connect two Superfund sites at the former Rocky Flats plutonium plant and the Rocky Mountain ...

So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... common uranium 238 would be transmuted into "element 94," now called plutonium. Like uranium 235, element 94 would be an incredibly powerful explosive.

The conversion itself is one of the main achievements of the agreement, because only at Arak can Iran produce plutonium from raw uranium, strategically essential for producing bombs deliverable ...

After helping to engineer the plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, ending the war, Seaborg returned to Berkeley. He continued to make new elements, with less dramatic applications ...

A total of seven nuclear bombs were tested at Maralinga, the first was similar in size to the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II. Maralinga was officially closed ...