Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What happened when the Trinity test bomb detonated, from the creation of green glass to fallout that drifted over 1,000 miles ...

Mar. 16—TRINITY — George Braxton Pegram may not have been "the father of the atomic bomb," but he sure helped with the delivery. By now, you've almost certainly heard of J. Robert Oppenheimer — the ...

He's blown up a 747, filmed fight scenes in zero gravity, and now, he's made a bomb. Well, a mini bomb. For Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster, which follows the development and aftermath of the ...

At approximately 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexican desert. It was bright, hot, and loud. Scientists and military personnel crouched nearby in ...