Manhattan Project Scientist Dies
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Devoted to finding a way for science to help society, not much escaped the influence of chemist George Cowan. From the Manhattan ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Devoted to finding a way for science to help society, not much escaped the influence of chemist George Cowan. From the Manhattan ...
AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 08.31.2011
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- The threat of wildfire reaching the Los Alamos nuclear lab and the town that surrounds it eased after crews made progress under cl...
AP | By P. SOLOMON BANDA and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 08.28.2011
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- A wildfire burning near the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor dr...
Frank A. Weil | Posted 08.08.2011
For most of the last 200 years either the public sector (government in some form) or the private sector (profit or nonprofit entities) dealt independe...
Katie Engelhart | Posted 05.28.2011
Germany could well become the first major industrial power to abandon nuclear energy entirely.
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
It's been exactly 50 years since John F. Kennedy gave his first State of the Union address, the speech in which he announced an American commitment to...
Jane White | Posted 05.25.2011
Most likely the best fix for our economic malaise isn't a trickle-down, stimulus or protectionist approach but to use federal funds for a "Manhattan Project" that would kick-start high-tech innovation that will create high-skilled jobs.
James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011
Trinity was the culmination of the Manhattan Project where, during World War II, some of the best scientific minds toiled to perfect a device they called "the gadget." With the force of 20,000 tons of TNT, the gadget broke windows 90 miles away
Rizwan Ladha | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm noticing what might be a curious trend lately in Hollywood: movies are being made about nuclear weapons again.
Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011
There's plenty of money sloshing around to reward the masters -- and academic servants -- of the nuclear weapons industry. But should the University of California be managing laboratories that design the latest technologies for nuclear holocaust?
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011
The president's actual foreign policy strategy must be more than about Afghanistan. Commending allies that support US efforts in Afghanistan is not necessarily the makings of a new global commons.
Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 05.25.2011
I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.17.2011
Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
While GM and Chrysler both remain on life support (and Ford has also been talking with the government about a credit line or loan), the car and truck business around the world is not doing much better than Detroit.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011
The world needs to spend $45 trillion to halve planet-warming carbon dioxide by 2050.It's hard to focus on global warming when oil is selling for $40 a barrel and it is freezing outside.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011
Are we destined to soon be crushed by the dual hammer of Peak Oil and Global Warming, crippling our civilization forever?
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama has consistently shown his support for an American car-making industry, a modern and green industry able to build the kinds of cars and trucks people will want to buy.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011
The average annual U.S. Department of Energy renewable energy budget over the past decade has been less than $1 billion a year.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011
Do you get a sense that we are beginning to lose control?
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011
Laid end to end, a billion one dollar bills would circle the globe at the equator four times. How far does a sum of one billion dollars go these days?
AP | SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 04.22.2012