Articles related to "J Robert Oppenheimer"

The development, test, and use of the first atomic bomb by the United States during World War II.

The Trinity test site in New Mexico was the location where the first atomic bomb was exploded.

In 1945, America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan killing as many as 220,000 people. But how did the US come to have such destructive weapons before anyone else?

Since 1940, the United States nuclear weapons arsenal has had high environmental, public, and moral costs for the entire world; they were enumerated in a recent study.

Tracing the process that transpired in the invention of the Atomic Bomb, the "Project Manhattan."

Historians cite several reasons that may have played a part in the dropping of the atomic bombs, but President Truman remained steadfast in his defense of using them.

Despite Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949, early Cold War crises were frequently diffused when the U.S. threatened to use the bomb in several Asian conflicts.

Mankind's greatest atomic power was harnessed through the invention of the nuclear reactor by two physicists, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard.

Brief biography of chemist Linus Pauling, so far the only Nobel laureate of two unshared Nobel Prizes, Chemistry and Peace, and known for The Nature of the Chemical Bond.

In 1942, a "secret city" sprang up in a Tennessee valley, as Allied scientists raced to beat the Germans at developing enriched uranium to fuel the first atomic bomb.

Highway 380 in southern New Mexico takes you to the home of Smokey Bear and a rock shop where you can buy Trinitite.