The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were ...

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic bomb in New Mexico.

Authorities have suspended the pyrotechnic licenses of two men following the devastating explosion and fire at a fireworks storage facility in Yolo County earlier this month, Cal Fire ...

The state was immediately changed by Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project's detonation of the world's first atomic weapon, ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...

Rebuilding Syria is proving a potentially lethal task, as streets and farmland are seeded with unexploded land mines – with ...

Chronicling the life of an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, “Washington Black” follows him from slavery ...

Sovereign” is a ripped-from-the-headlines crime thriller about the deadly Arkansas shootout in 2010 involving father-son duo ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Wikimedia Commons/Mare Island Navy Yard The 1944 Port Chicago Explosion The Navy built Port Chicago Naval Magazine in 1942 to ...