The Los Alamos Laboratory, the historic birthplace of the atomic bomb during World War II, will be the primary hub for this collaboration. This laboratory, overseen by the US Department of Energy, ...

But for all such outward signs of normalcy, Los Alamos (pop. 12,580) is unlike any other community in New Mexico—or indeed the U.S. Birthplace of the atomic bomb and still the nation’s center ...

Los Alamos adopted the new programme ... 1952 had a yield that was 500 times larger than the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and obliterated an entire island in the Pacific Ocean.

The release caps a big week that also saw the company making announcements related to U.S. government work.

During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.

The entrepreneur earned the title in 2022 and is since thought have more than doubled his estimated net worth to a staggering ...

The other two production sites for the Manhattan Project – Hanford, Washington, and Los Alamos, New Mexico – have numerous nonprofits nearby protesting weapons and advocating for environmental cleanup ...

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death for spying for the Soviet Union. Decades later, we’re still grappling with what ...

By World War II, his drive to defeat Germany would propel him to direct the Manhattan Project — the top-secret development of an American atomic bomb — at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

OpenAI just released o3-mini, a miniature version of its upcoming flagship AI model. The new model is the company’s first “small reasoning model,” capable of using a train-of-thought process ...

Christopher Nolan’s next project is an adaptation of The Odyssey, and though Oppenheimer is his biggest project to date, his ...