This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the Southern New Mexico desert. The test, which sent a giant mushroom cloud ...

Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project. Almost overnight, the ranching enclave on a remote plateau in northern New Mexico was transformed into a ...

A historic Manhattan Project building is getting a new lease on life in Los Alamos, as the county plans to transform it into a hub for national park tourism. New ...

The Los Alamos home where Manhattan Project scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer lived with his family during World War II has never been open to the public. That will change soon if a ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Lottery registration is open for “behind-the-fence” tours of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos. The guided tours will take place in October 2025 on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, I have been asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a very short time ...

Albert Bartlett was born in Shanghai in 1923, worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, got his PhD from Harvard, and spent his career as a physics professor at the University of Colorado. But he ...

YPSILANTI TWP., MI - A year after the University of Michigan announced a $1.2 billion project with the laboratory that developed the atomic bomb, residents and local lawmakers have more questions ...