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The world first entered the nuclear age in the early 1940s, when a group of scientists, led by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi tested the first nuclear…

The 96th Academy Awards race commenced on Tuesday with the announcement of the nominations, which saw Oppenheimer and Poor Things taking the lead with 13 and 11 nominations, respectively. The former is an extensive exploration of the dawn of the Atomic Age, while the latter is a feminist fantasy set in a steampunk world with […]

THE DOOMSDAY Clock press conference has determined just how close we are to the end of the world.The Doomsday Clock reads 90 seconds to midnight as it

Americans are typically told the story of the scientists who built the atomic bomb as an intellectual race for the world’s most powerful weapon during wartime. More than 100 atmospheric

The North Rim of the Black Canyon, in the National Park, which is accessed from Fruitland Mesa near Crawford — a remote region of ranches at the base of the

In New Mexico, Trinity Test site neighbors weren’t warned or evacuated before the U.S. government detonated the atomic bomb in 1945. The light was so bright it could be seen hundreds of miles away. Nearly half a million people resided within a 150-mile radius of the blast. Witnesses said ash rained down for days. 

Former staff editor Emily Greene Balch's 1946 Peace Prize win “recognized how much private citizens can contribute to the conditions for international peace.” Peace Prize laureates published in the The Nation include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Sir Norman Angell, Elie Wiesel, Willy Brandt, Mikhail Gorbachev, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.

From space odysseys to star wars, alien invaders to guardians of the galaxy — the best science films since the genre first took a trip to the moon.

The year’s best films still offer power and poignancy. And even in movies where God seems absent, we can still find things that point to Him.

The man known for popularizing the phrase, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog,” couldn’t stand having one himself.