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Plaque on the obelisk that marks ground zero at the Trinity Site
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...

Louis Slotin (left) and Herbert Lehr with the Gadget bomb, July 13, 1945. (Los Alamos National Laboratory photo)
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.

At Alamagordo, N.M., a Manhattan Project team assembles "Jumbo" or "Big Brother" prior to its detonation on July 16, 1945.
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...

Retiring General to Lawmakers: Keep the Nuclear Triad
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Former US General Calls for Pre-emptive Strike on North Korea
North Korea Close to Having Nuclear-Armed ICBM: Official
Protesters in Seoul stage a rally Feb. 1 opposing the possible US deployment in South Korea of the THAAD missile defense system. (AP photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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.

Two maintainers work on a missile while it sits erect in its capsule. Malmstrom's first flight of Minute-man missiles went on alert Oct. 26, 1962. (U.S. Air Force/courtesy photo)
Air Force to Introduce New Bonuses for Nuke Force

The USAF plans to introduce new bonuses and other incentives for airmen in the nuclear workforce, the service's top civilian...

Former Defense Secretary William Perry answers questions from guests during a dinner for technology industry leaders held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., April 17, 2013. Glenn Fawcett/DoD
Former SecDef: Remove ICBMs From Nuclear Triad

For former defense secretary William Perry, the danger of intercontinental ballistic missiles was starkly illustrated in 1979...

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