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In the weeks leading up to the 78th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Americans rushed to theaters for &quot&#x3B;Oppenheimer,&quot&#x3B; a new biopic about the life of the pivotal figure behind the development of nuclear weapons. The film has&#x2...

A wave of viral memes juxtaposing imagery inspired by the movies Oppenheimer and Barbie has won fans in the United States but has not gone down so well in Japan, where anti-nuclear weapons sentiment is strong.

Just hours before the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Lawrence Langer found himself lying on top of the 9,700-pound explosive taking a nap.

Just hours before the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Lawrence Langer found himself lying on top of the 9,700-pound explosive taking a nap.

Just hours before the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Lawrence Langer found himself lying on top of the 9,700-pound explosive taking a nap.

Joe Rogan and a guest on his top-ranked Spotify podcast suggested in a July 2023 episode that US nuclear tests captured on video were faked, arguing that cameras could not sustain the forces that blew up model houses, cars and electrical structures. This is false; the Cold War-era experiments used film setups built to withstand atomic blasts and radiation, experts told AFP.

In the late spring of 1952, Sen. Brien McMahon, a presidential contender, and his right-hand staffer William Borden hired a former FBI agent to investigate whether Julius Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, was a Communist spy.

“Oppenheimer,” one of this summer’s most anticipated films, depicts the saga of J. Robert Oppenheimer, his fellow physicists and select military officials creating the first atomic bomb during World War

New Mexico nuclear museum gets a Soviet missile for display

A proposal to strengthen tribal self-determination in early childhood education will get its first committee hearing in the New Mexico Legislature today.