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The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.

The colors and light bursting from Oppenheimer's Trinity test — the first nuclear explosion — was almost beyond the powers of witnesses to describe.

My personal nightmare was knowing that if the bomb didn't go off or hangfired, I, as head of the test, would have to go to the tower first and seek to find out what had gone wrong.

Christopher Nolan's upcoming film has reawakened interest in nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer's fascination with the Hindu religion.

“We also know that visitors increasingly want to know exactly how we know what we know about the past," The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Ron Hurst said of the new archaeology center.

After officially entering service on Jan. 1 (see Daily GPI, Jan. 6), Dominion's Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) expansion project went into full commercial service Thursday after the Maryland segment of the project -- 48 miles of 36-inch diameter pipeline loop -- was completed.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the natural gas transmission and storage assets of Dominion Energy.

Remembering some of the notable Richmonders we lost in 2021

We lost a galaxy of public individuals whose smarts, spirit and spunk made our community stronger and better.