A secret US nuclear weapons facility near Las Vegas may soon begin testing live bombs again as global tensions may be pushing ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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 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 ...