July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...

Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained ...

(If the chain reaction started with uranium, it also created a byproduct, plutonium, a better fuel for a nuclear weapon.) At the University of Chicago, Fermi worked with a team to find a way to ...

This is called a chain reaction. All the splitting atoms release energy in the form of heat. The heat is used to turn water into steam. Nuclear radiation is all around us. It reaches us from space ...

and enough neutrons to zip about that allow for a nuclear chain reaction to begin and sustain itself. This is why natural nuclear fission reactors existed during the formative years of the Earth ...