The Actors’ Gang captures the tenor of our strange times with the troupe’s revival of Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s ...

The UK spent 70 years denying there was a genetic legacy from nuclear testing. New files show government scientists predicted ...

General Kenneth D. Nichols, 'father of Oak Ridge,' became J. Robert Oppenheimer's 'accuser' in a 1953 security hearing.

Civilians have received benefits for work at the Nevada test site, but Cold War-era regulations still do not allow veterans ...

Driven by repeated confrontations with the United States and a desire to avoid being bullied by stronger powers, Mao Zedong ...

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab. The term “clathrates” denotes materials characterized ...

A version of this article was first published by the Salt Lake Tribune on April 28, 2026. It was reported and edited in collaboration with Main Street Media Cooperative, which assigns veteran New York ...

On a dark July morning in 1945, U.S. scientists and military personnel detonated the world's first nuclear bomb in a remote area of New Mexico. The blast unleashed the energy equivalent of 25,000 tons ...

As modern technologies shrink to the nanoscale, surfaces increasingly dictate how materials deform, yield, and fail. Yet probing this regime has long been hindered by the challenge of preparing and ...