Jan. 19, 1882: William Snyder Webb, University of Kentucky administrator and developer on the atom bomb, is born in Fayette County. Webb was an educator, a scientist, an anthropologist and a ...

It was 12 September 1933. A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 135,000 people. The path from Szilard’s idea to its deadly realisation is ...

This plutonium atomic bomb was called Trinity and it marked the beginning of the nuclear age. Read about who invented it, how the tests went, and why humanity decided to create such a terrible weapon.

Oppenheimer and his team were ready to test their atomic bomb. The ‘Trinity’ test was conducted on 16th July 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico where an anxious Oppenheimer watched from a control bunker ...

Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, causing the deaths of 40,000 more. The dropping of the bombs, which occurred by executive order of US President Harry Truman, remains the only ...