After atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear physicist Katharine Way persuaded the world’s greatest physicists to contribute essays to a book opposing nuclear weapons...
Here’s the story of the Lilli Hornig, the only female scientist named in the film Oppenheimer.
Naomi Livesay worked on computations that formed the mathematical basis for implosion simulations. Despite her crucial role on the project, she is rarely mentioned as more than a footnote—until now...
Floy Agnes Lee came to Los Alamos, N.M., in 1945 knowing nothing of the top secret work on the atomic bomb happening all around her—but she studied the blood of the researchers who did...
The top-secret Manhattan Project resulted in the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945
Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb.
Hundreds of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project were women. They were physicists, chemists, engineers and mathematicians. Today we bring you the story of one of them...
A new report says flooding and heat waves exacerbated by climate change could complicate U.S. nuclear launches
Russia and other nations are working on “sovereign Internet” systems that threaten digital rights—and the stability of the global Internet
Specialists speculate that a Chinese spacecraft that spent nine months in Earth’s orbit might be similar to a U.S. space plane, and it could have research or military uses...
Facing Russia’s nuclear threats, the U.S. and its G7 allies must not whitewash their own
Antidrone technology is combatting “flying IEDs” in the air over Ukraine—with implications beyond the war with Russia
In the inaugural episode of Cosmos, Quickly, we blast off with Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno of the Space Force, who is charged with protecting our space in space, particularly from Russia and China...
An MQ-9 Reaper drone is sitting at the bottom of the Black Sea. Will the U.S. or Russia recover it?
Smart U.S. leadership and international pressure on Russia can prevent an unconstrained global nuclear arms race
By shunting pilot observations aside, the Pentagon likely fostered a UFO fad and overlooked Chinese intelligence technology entering U.S. airspace
Every question we have about the airborne objects that may or may not be spying on the U.S.
New “exascale” supercomputers will bring breakthroughs in science. But the technology also exists to study nuclear weapons
An expert explains why it’s so odd that the suspected Chinese spy balloon can change course
A cybersecurity expert explains how the FBI’s operation against the ransomware group Hive will impact the rest of this criminal industry
