At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, briefly became a furnace unlike any on Earth’s surface ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82’, was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

Tests in the 1950s were part of war effort but questions remain to this day.

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure ...

In the prosecution of the Second World War, the United States of America and the then Nazi Germany pursued two vastly different scientific weapons programs.

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...

The first reports were met with disbelief. A single bomb with the explosive force to level a city; a bomb, detonated with such intensity it burned as bright as — maybe, even brighter than — the sun.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 6, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. A cluster of balloons are released from ...