In the 1940s, the Soviet Union launched an all-out espionage effort to uncover military and defense secrets from the US and Britain (Klaus Fuchs, left, and David Greenglass, right). Associated Press, ...

“Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral decisions of J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, ...

July 16 is National Atomic Veterans Day, dedicated to the thousands of troops who participated in secret nuclear testing or were POWs in Nagasaki or Hiroshima. By Abigail Spanberger Published Jul 15, ...

How could geology help us spot cancer? It sounds like an unlikely pairing, but scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and Princeton University have, for the very first time, applied tools ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told the United Nations on Thursday that his intelligence agents had discovered a “secret atomic warehouse” in downtown Tehran, escalating a growing ...

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer | Image Gallery Atomic Secrets Science and the military converged under a cloak of secrecy at Los Alamos National Laboratory. As part of the Manhattan Project, Los ...

On this day April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for providing government secrets, including details of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet Union. In 1953, the couple would ...

Did Russia ever get any U.S. atomic secrets during the war? This week the House Un-American Activities Committee issued a report which strongly implied that it probably did. The committee’s report ...

Last week brought a gleam in the darkness, a first soft glow in the terrifying gloom which seven months before, after the blinding flash over Hiroshima, had engulfed the world. Perhaps there was a ...

(Original Caption) Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), American physicist, Director of the Manhattan project. Undated photograph, standing before blackboard, holding pipe. This article is part of TPM Cafe ...

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