Barbara Kent and a dozen other 13-year-old girls believed nuclear fallout from the Manhattan Project's Trinity test was summertime snow.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — When a flash of light beamed from the arid New Mexico desert early on July 16, 1945, residents of the historic Hispanic village of Tularosa felt windows shake and heard dishes ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — An unknown blast shook the desolate New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, unsettling the historic Hispanic village of Tularosa. Most residents lacked phones and radios, so they ...

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 ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project‘s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is commemorating Oak Ridge’s role in bringing World War II to an end.

Thursday marked 70 years since the world's first successful atomic bomb test as part of the top-secret World War II program, the Manhattan Project. Due to the controversy surrounding this detonation, ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- When a flash of light beamed from the arid New Mexico desert early July 16, 1945, residents of the historic Hispanic village of Tularosa felt windows shake and heard dishes fall.

An atomic bomb test at Bikini Lagoon. Marshall Islands, July 1946. Today is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and the first use of an atomic bomb in war, in this case by the United ...

LEWISTON, N.Y. — As the world marks 80 years since the Atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the effort to develop the weapon lingers in the ground throughout Western New York.