At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, briefly became a furnace unlike any on Earth’s surface ...

Last week brought a gleam in the darkness, a first soft glow in the terrifying gloom which seven months before, after the blinding flash over Hiroshima, had engulfed the world. Perhaps there was a ...

The Atomic Age was a time of mass public optimism in the possibilities of nuclear power for the world. While the raw destructive potential of nuclear weapons was known, the potential for near-infinite ...

Years before Robert Oppenheimer led the Los Alamos lab that developed the first nuclear weapons, physicists in D.C. thrust the world into the atomic age — inside a narrow, zigzagging tunnel running ...

Christopher Nolan believes J. Robert Oppenheimer is the most important person who ever lived. “By unleashing nuclear power,” the film director concludes, “he gave us the power to destroy ourselves.” ...

The United States faces an AI challenge similar to the Atomic Age and needs clear federal rules to secure leadership and manage proliferation risks amid great power competition. On December 8, 1953, ...

One year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

During the early 1950s America went bonkers over the budding atomic age. The growth of Las Vegas, for example, was partially due to a new bomb-testing site situated 65 miles northwest of the gambling ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The long-standing mystery behind one of the most iconic photos of the Atomic Age has finally been solved. The Atomic Museum announced Friday that the woman in the photograph ...