Eighty years ago this week, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his crew ushered in the nuclear age, when they successfully tested the first ever nuclear explosion in the New Mexico desert.

Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves: After arriving at the Alamogordo base camp on July 15, a brief review of the situation with Oppenheimer revealed that we might be in trouble. The bomb had been assembled and ...

The first atomic bomb, nicknamed ‘The Gadget’, was launched at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 1945. Led ...

In the 1950s, the U.S. experimented with carrying a nuclear reactor on a plane, but stopped short of actually using nuclear ...

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Christopher Nolan's smash-hit film Oppenheimer is now available on Netflix – and is swiftly making its way up the charts. One ...

Real footage captured of the trinity test leaves viewers divided over the accuracy of the events depicted in Christopher ...

July 16 is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in 1945, 12 young girls attending a summer camp in Ruidoso, New Mexico, were jolted out of their bunks ...

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

Two new renditions of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” memorialize the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test ...

Oppenheimer marked Nolan's first partnership with Universal Pictures after leaving Warner Bros., and it was a resounding ...

Christopher Nolan did not use CGI to create the effect of Oppenheimer's atomic bomb explosion scene, with the film having been recently added to Netflix ...