"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 ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning.

Photo: Atomic ... bomb and uranium research was going on at about 12 American universities. In 1942 Fermi's team at the University of Chicago created a sustained chain reaction of fission for the ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — A building at Y-12 that helped create the first atomic bombs is being demolished. Building 9201-2, also known as Alpha-2, is a 2.5-acre structure was built in 1944 to ...

Thanks to researchers at TenX's CoBloX, the world's first solution for ERC-20-to-bitcoin atomic swaps on Lightning has arrived. At the December 7, 2018, TenX Summit, a group of developers showcased an ...