Trinity Test residents praise Obama's plan to visit Hiroshima
Residents of a historic Hispanic village near the site where the U.S. government tested the first atomic bomb have praised President Barack Obama's planned visit to Hiroshima — the Japanese city devastated by the world's first atomic bombing in war. The residents want Obama to ...
The most polluted U.S. nuclear weapons production site is now the newest national park. Thousands of people are expected next year to tour the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, home of the world's first full-sized nuclear reactor, near Richland, about 200 miles (320 km) east of Seattle ...
New U.S. Manhattan Project national park sites tell story of nuclear weapons from all sides
A ceremony in a federal building in Washington opens the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which preserves sites key the atomic bomb’s development.
Underground fire 300 meters from nuclear waste causes St. Louis to hatch contingency plan
Beneath the surface of a St. Louis-area landfill lurk two things that should never meet: a slow-burning fire and a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste, separated by just 300 meters. Government officials have quietly adopted an emergency plan in case the smoldering embers ever ...
Trinity witness recalls Manhattan Project work, day 'genie came out of the bottle'
Roger Rasmussen stood at the base of the Oscura Mountains staring at a boiling cloud of ash and smoke rising up in southern New Mexico's Jornada del Muerto desert. It was 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Not a minute before, Rasmussen had been face ...
Ethel Rosenberg brother's testimony released in notorious spy trial; suspicions raised
The brother of Ethel Rosenberg, who was a star witness against his sister and brother-in-law in a sensational Cold War atomic spying case, minimized his dealings with his sister during an earlier appearance before a grand jury and said they had never discussed her ...
Manhattan Project engineer says Nagasaki bombing was overly hasty
An engineer recruited to work on the Manhattan Project says he opposed the use of nuclear weapons on civilian targets and believes the United States "could have waited" before A-bombing Nagasaki, given that the Japanese government was in turmoil from the destruction of Hiroshima ...
Promoting specific views on the history of U.S. atomic bomb development is not the intention of a national park to be built to commemorate facilities related to the Manhattan Project, the secret U.S. wartime atomic bomb program, the head of a body cooperating with ...
New documents released on Manhattan Project director Oppenheimer
The U.S. Department of Energy has declassified documents related to a Cold War hearing for the man who directed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bombs and was later accused of having communist sympathies. The department last week released transcripts of the 1950s hearings ...
