Watch how the first atomic bomb test unfolded, as scientists pushed the limits of physics in a race to end the war. Behind the scenes, there were real fears that the explosion could trigger a chain ...
In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...
Lucy Benavidez Garwood was 13 years old when the Trinity atomic bomb test was detonated at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, 50 miles from her home in Tularosa, on July 16, 1945. A ...
The US tested a doomsday ballistic missile off the California coast Tuesday night — as war raged in the Middle East. The Minuteman III ballistic missile — which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads ...
On January 27, 1951, the United States began a program of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons-related devices in Nevada that continued intermittently until August 5, 1963, when the Limited Test Ban ...
>> Volunteers honored for efforts in 2018 Air Force Marathon events Albert Tseu (Za-O) and Roy Campbell Two veterans who parachuted into a blast zone to study the effects of radiation from an atomic ...