The conclusion of World War II came with a daunting choice that forever changed history: the use of atomic bombs on Japan. But few know this fact: there was a third atomic bomb, perhaps bound for a ...

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the Southern New Mexico desert. The test, which sent a giant mushroom cloud ...

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

White Sands Missile Range, DoD's largest, fully-instrumented, open air range, provides America's Armed Forces, allies, ...

In 2024, the US consumed 50 million pounds of uranium, but only produced 677,000 pounds, according to the EIA.