Los Alamos

North Korea Designed A Nuke. So Did This Truck Driver

11:56am December 26, 2017

by Geoff Brumfiel

It took decades, but John Coster-Mullen has pieced together specs for America's first nuclear bombs. Some believe his odyssey says something about North Korea's rapid nuclear progress.

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An archival view of Oak Ridge, Tenn. shows one of the three sites that has been included in the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.

National

Passions Flare Over Memory Of The Manhattan Project

8:08am January 14, 2017

by Megan Kamerick

The new Manhattan Project National Historical Park tells the story of how scientists created the world's first atomic bomb. But how fully the story will be told is intensely controversial.

Seven Decades Ago, A New, Enormous Kind Of Explosion

7:55am July 17, 2015

by David Greene

Seventy years ago this week, in the New Mexico desert, U.S. Army scientists detonated the first atom bomb. NYU physics professor Benjamin Bederson was among those who worked on the Manhattan Project.

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U.S. Nuclear Scientist Caught In FBI Sting Is Jailed For Espionage

3:27pm January 30, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni is sentenced to five years after telling FBI agents posing as Venezuelan officials that he could design and supervise the building of 40 nuclear bombs.