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 ...

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.

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 ...