On July 16, 1945 — 80 years ago — the federal government detonated the first atomic bomb in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico. That test, known as the Trinity Test, changed the world — and it changed ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025 Credit - Andrew Harnik—Getty Images Trump wrote that he had instructed ...

After the first atomic bomb test in 1945, military engineers imagined tanks that could survive nuclear war. The U.S. TV-8 was ...

President Donald Trump Thursday sowed confusion among experts with his call for the start of nuclear weapons testing, with some pundits interpreting the announcement as US preparations for a shock ...

TASS FACTBOX. On October 30, 2025, US President Donald Trump announced that he had instructed the Department of War to begin nuclear weapons testing because "other countries are doing the same," ...

Four museums currently have exhibits regarding J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb. July 16, 1945. Seventy-eight years ago to be exact, the world’s first atomic bomb was ...

In a first, DNA testing has managed to link preserved remains of a Hiroshima victim to a teenage girl who disappeared after the US atomic bombing in 1945.