On July 13, 1945, at a site called Trinity 100 km northwest of Alamogordo, a plutonium bomb was assembled and brought to the top of a tower. The test was postponed by thunderstorms. On July 16 ...

The long lasting effects of the bomb tests are still seen today in white sand beaches laced with Plutonium, ocean waves laced with strontium and the emergence of mutant sharks in the waters of ...

According to the British newspaper The Times, a memo has already been drafted at the Ministry of Defense suggesting that Ukraine could quickly embark on a project to build a plutonium-based bomb ...

"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 ...

A wildlife corridor plans to connect two Superfund sites at the former Rocky Flats plutonium plant and the Rocky Mountain ...

SRS Watch is a non-profit organization working on sound policies and projects by the U.S. Department of Energy, inclduing oppositio n to the proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant. Partially finished ...

So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... common uranium 238 would be transmuted into "element 94," now called plutonium. Like uranium 235, element 94 would be an incredibly powerful explosive.