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.

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 ...

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 ...

Emerging dangers are reshaping the landscape of nuclear deterrence and increasing the threat of mutual annihilation.

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

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We tend to think of the US as the atomic bomb’s creators. But we’re ignoring some crucial figures, as Gareth Williams’s ...

Before Albert Einstein died, he explicitly stated that he didn't want to be studied. But mere hours after his death, the ...

It’s time to put an end to the never-ending debates about Einstein’s IQ and the ridiculous comparisons to figures like Nikola Tesla. The constant question of "who’s smarter, Tesla or Einstein?" misses ...

He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of ...

Oppenheimer will be available to watch on Netflix in the UK and Ireland on Saturday 12 July. It is currently streaming on ...