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

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

The Trinity test—the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project.

Scientists and military leaders proceeded with the first atomic bomb test despite acknowledging the risk of a catastrophe.

A Bulletin short fiction contest Announcing the Bulletin‘s new short fiction contest… Over the decades, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the smartest minds in the fields it covers, ...

It could be one of the most anticipated summer thrillers to hit theaters. Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists only moved the hands of the Clock ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists who were part of the Manhattan Project – to develop America’s first nuclear bomb – in 1945 turned anti-atomic weapons two ...

Physicists like J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein were among its creators, who sought to make the clock a visual depiction of the danger presented by nuclear weapons.

News Can you visit the Doomsday Clock in Chicago? The famous Doomsday clock is now set at 89 seconds to midnight, which is the closest it has ever been to "global catastrophe." ...