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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls. Now, a new arms race is heating up.

The film boasts a Certified Fresh 93% approval from the critics and 91% from the audience, alongside the Verified Hot badge.

John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged the U.S.