J. Robert Oppenheimer led the scientific effort that created the world’s first atomic bomb during World War II. The Trinity test in 1945 produced an explosion equal to nearly 25,000 tons of TNT, ...

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...

At 5:30 a.m. mountain war time on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon detonated over a flat, arid stretch of New Mexico desert. The Trinity test, as it was code-named, confirmed that an ...

Israel said Tuesday that Iran's top security official and the head of the Revolutionary Guard's Basij militia were both killed in overnight strikes.

By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING, RUSS BYNUM and SALLY ABOU ALJOUD DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli warplanes pounded ...

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

The vault door is a showstopper, a massive circular portal that looks like it belongs in a museum exhibit about banking ...

Polymarket removed a market that allowed traders to bet on the likelihood of a nuclear detonation around the world, after the U.S. and Israel strikes on Iran led to a spike in trading and sudden ...

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Bettors have long been able to speculate on the chance of a nuclear weapon detonating on Polymarket, but the current conflict with Iran – and scrutiny about insiders trading on war – has apparently ...

The crypto-based prediction sensation Polymarket has quietly taken down a bet on whether a nuclear weapon would be detonated before next year. The bet, which was first listed last November, generated ...