Robert Oppenheimer’s moonshot project to build an atomic bomb in a top-secret lab in the New Mexico desert—and his lifelong qualms about the nuclear age he ushered in. Did the legendary ...

Miss Atomic Bomb: the Woman, the Mystery and the Man Who Solved It LAS VEGAS (AP) — It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb." All Robert ...

Three days after that blast, the United States detonated a second atomic bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, over the city of Nagasaki, some 185 miles (300 km) northeast of Hiroshima. The plutonium 239 bomb ...