Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project‘s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is ...

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 ...

A number of social media posts in August 2025 shared a story about the civilian aftermath of America's rush to create the atomic bomb in 1945. According to the posts, a group of 13-year-old girls was ...

The Manhattan Project was one of the most secretive efforts in United States History. None of the scientists knew how big the initial atomic test would be. Follow 24/7 Wall St. on Google By David ...

Some residents are battling cancer more than 70 years after Trinity test. The Trinity Test, the detonation of the first atomic bomb in 1945, was a technical success -- the gadget, as it was codenamed, ...

This article is part of a series that will delve into the history of the Trinity Site Test, which marked its 80th anniversary on July 16, 2025, and the commemoration of the growth and evolution of ...

In Part 1 of this series, I recalled being asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was so successful. I compared the timelines for the X-10 Graphite Reactor (nine months) to the ...

Wendy Wintersteen is president of Iowa State University. Watching the young men and women sailors scramble aboard the new USS Iowa submarine as ship sponsor Christie Vilsack announced, "Board our boat ...

The Manhattan Project was a large-scale, top-secret program of the U.S. federal government created with the specific purpose of developing the world's first nuclear weapon. Each step of the ...

The Manhattan Project occurred between 1942 and 1946. It employed over 129,000 people at its peak and cost a total of $2 billion. The project produced the first working nuclear bombs and ushered in ...

This is a feasibility study to identify, understand, and delineate a process for accessing available data and information pertaining to veterans who served on active duty during the Manhattan Project ...