Before the Trinity Test in July 1945, some of the world's leading physicists considered an unsettling possibility: could the ...

Emily Seyl's richly illustrated history of the Trinity Test reveals how the Manhattan Project transformed innovation—and forever changed the world.

Few names are as closely linked with the atomic bomb as Albert Einstein's. Mention nuclear weapons and, sooner or later, someone will bring up his famous equation, E = mc².

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan to force the unconditional surrender that ended World War II. The fearsome weapons were created by ...

"The exploration of how key government officials were unaware of the implications of developing the first atomic bomb during World War II, leaving the lives of millions of Americans in the hands of a ...