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...
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.
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, 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.
US Ready to Offer Iran Nuclear Equipment if it Pares Weapons Programs The United States and its allies are willing to offer Iran state-of-the-art nuclear equipment if Tehran agrees to pare down...
'The MARSOC 3 Are Free': Drinking Convictions Dismissed Against Marine Raiders, Ending 6-Year Legal Saga A military court of appeals on Friday dismissed the final convictions against two Marine Raiders embroiled in a yearslong...
Here's Where Trump's Pentagon and National Security Nominees Stand Ahead of New Year President-elect Donald Trump's nominees to lead the Pentagon and other key national security and veterans agencies face a...
The Army's Fitness Standards May Shift in 2025. But How Much Tougher Will They Be? The Army is poised to recalibrate its fitness standards, redefining the physical expectations for combat-arms roles in 2025...
Here Are the 89 Highly Skilled Air Force Jobs Eligible for Retention Bonuses in 2025 The 89 career fields on the list eligible for the bonus in fiscal 2025 are a notable increase from the 73 careers for fiscal...
Rare Corruption Case Against 4-Star Admiral Runs Headlong into Mistress Testimony Issues, Pentagon Culture The witness in question is a woman with whom Burke was having an affair and who, according to court filings, went to...
![At Alamagordo, N.M., a Manhattan Project team assembles "Jumbo" or "Big Brother" prior to its detonation on July 16, 1945.](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/media/history/cold-war/2017/02/jumbo-nuclear-bomb.jpg?itok=-uzptGc8 "At Alamagordo, N.M., a Manhattan Project team assembles "Jumbo" or "Big Brother" prior to its detonation on July 16, 1945. This detonation marked the first controlled atomic explosion and began the atomic age. (Los Alamos National Laboratory photo)")
