See what Hiroshima looks like 80 years after the atomic bomb

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Granddaughter of atomic bomb architect J Robert Oppenheimer visited Pantex

A visit to the Pantex Plant’s Alternate Emergency Operations Center recently brought a personal connection to one of the most ...

Trinity at 81: How the first atomic test ushered in the nuclear age

In 1945, the Trinity test signified the beginning of the nuclear age and marked the successful output of the Manhattan ...
Chicago Tribune

Hiroshima marks 80 years since atomic bombing as aging survivors worry about growing nuke threat

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The World’s First Nuclear Clocks Are Ticking, Opening a New Way to Investigate Dark Matter and Other Mysteries of Physics

Two independent teams of scientists have created the first functional clocks that can keep ultraprecise time using the nuclei ...

Nuclear clock ticks for the first time, using a thorium-229 atomic nucleus

World's first thorium-229 nuclear clock shows potential for ultra-precise timekeeping and fundamental physics tests.