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Plaque on the obelisk that marks ground zero at the Trinity Site
The Trinity Test Site Is Open One More Time This Year. You Might Not Get In.

White Sands Missile Range, where the U.S. detonated the world's first nuclear weapon known as "the Gadget" on July 16, 1945...

Louis Slotin (left) and Herbert Lehr with the Gadget bomb, July 13, 1945. (Los Alamos National Laboratory photo)
How a Scientist's Atomic Demonstration Turned Deadly at Los Alamos

On May 21, 1946, Dr. Louis Slotin suffered a fatal dose of radiation during an accident involving a nuclear bomb.

At Alamagordo, N.M., a Manhattan Project team assembles "Jumbo" or "Big Brother" prior to its detonation on July 16, 1945.
How the Manhattan Project Gained Momentum in Building the Atomic Bomb

The atomic age formally began at exactly 5:30 a.m. (Mountain time) on July 16, 1945. At that moment, the Manhattan Project...

US Likely to Keep Nukes in Turkey Despite Coup Attempt
Former US General Calls for Pre-emptive Strike on North Korea
North Korea Close to Having Nuclear-Armed ICBM: Official
Retiring General to Lawmakers: Keep the Nuclear Triad
Protesters in Seoul stage a rally Feb. 1 opposing the possible US deployment in South Korea of the THAAD missile defense system. (AP photo/Ahn Young-joon)
US, South Korea to Discuss Deployment of Missile Defense System

Seoul and Washington have agreed to begin talks about deploying the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea.

Hagel Looks At Pay Raises for Missile Officers

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has been considering pay raises and other incentives to boost the flagging morale of young...

Republicans Call Iran Nuclear Agreement a Bad Deal for US

Obama is preparing to defend the Iran nuclear deal from a group of Republican lawmakers who questioned the historic deal.

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