Complete a nation-wide programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) on expanded plutonium“pit” bomb core production within 2.5 years. . Hold two successive rounds of public hearings ...

This image from 1945 shows Manhattan Project physicist Harold Agnew smiling and holding the plutonium core of one of the ... the heart of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated on August 9 ...

faulted the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency for ignoring the National Environmental Protection Act and rushing plans to fabricate plutonium pit bombs at Savannah ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

Terumi Tanaka was 13 when a U.S. warplane dropped a plutonium bomb on the southern Japanese city of Nagasaki, on Aug. 9, 1945. Sitting at home with a book that morning, Tanaka knew instantly when ...

Weighing 14 pounds and responsible for approximately 80,000 deaths, the heart of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated on August 9, 1945, over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Nicknamed after ...

According to the NNSA, the US Department of Defense received the final batch of these nuclear bombs in December. The total number of these aerial bombs with a new plutonium core, which were produced ...

This plutonium atomic bomb was called Trinity and it marked the beginning of the nuclear age. Read about who invented it, how the tests went, and why humanity decided to create such a terrible weapon.