OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project‘s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is commemorating Oak Ridge’s role in bringing World War II to an end.

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 ...

One of the world's most significant historic documents will sell at public auction on the March 14. "Atomic Bombs," written just weeks before the first such weapons dropped on Japan, records a ...

World War II's Manhattan Project – which developed the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945 – was one of the greatest scientific, technological, and logistical achievements in history. The ...

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 ...

The film is a reminder of not only the scientific and technological miracle that was made possible by the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bombs that ended World War II, but also of what ...

Experience a historic adventure that extends beyond the Academy Award-winning film at Oppenheimer Festival 2024. The festival, which is in its second year, takes place Saturday, Aug. 10, through Aug.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In the closing weeks of World War II’s ...

(TULAROSA, N.M.) — The Trinity Test, the detonation of the first atomic bomb in 1945, was a technical success — the gadget, as it was codenamed, generated 18 kilotons of force, and the explosion set ...

This story was updated to add information. Barbara Scollin, great niece of Major Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality ...

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What happened to the communities who lived near the Trinity test? Did any Manhattan Project scientist suffer long-term health ...