On a dark July morning in 1945, U.S. scientists and military personnel detonated the world's first nuclear bomb in a remote area of New Mexico. The blast unleashed the energy equivalent of 25,000 tons ...

Nearly 81 years ago, the first nuclear bomb exploded. The Trinity test, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project in the New Mexico desert, detonated a plutonium bomb that released the energy of 25 ...

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab. The term “clathrates” denotes materials characterized ...

Noel Leon became the first Mexican driver to take a Formula 2 victory by winning the Canadian sprint at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Leon overcame polesitter Gabriel Mini in the 28-lap event, making ...

Nuclear weapons experts are raising the alarm bells over the pressing need for the Trump administration to codify in any new deal a ban on Iran’s attempts to use plutonium from its facilities to build ...

A World War II bomb discovered near a U.S. Army installation in western Germany forced evacuations, road closures and access restrictions Wednesday, underscoring the lingering dangers of unexploded ...

On March 1, 1954, the U.S. detonated the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb, causing unexpected fallout. The blast's radioactive debris contaminated Rongelap Atoll, exposing locals to dangerous radiation ...

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Authorities reported a bomb at an Alabama dam that posed “an unprecedented threat” during routine repairs on Tuesday. Mobile’s water and sewer agency alerted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office after ...

BETHEL PARK, Pa. — The busy Bethel Park Shopping Center was shut down for more than two hours on Wednesday as police swept a store for a potential bomb. Bethel Park police say officers were called to ...

President Donald Trump’s most consistent, and perhaps most compelling, justification for choosing to go to war with Iran was the “imminent threat” of the Iranian regime developing nuclear weapons with ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...