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Former Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) spoke about his concerns regarding the need to modernize U.S. nuclear weapons amid growing threats from China and Russia. Also participating in the Heritage Foundation…

Arms Control Association’s Daryl Kimball and Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Pregent talked about the latest on talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal.

Former Defense and State Department officials discussed nuclear security and nonproliferation at a virtual event hosted by the Atlantic Council. Among the speakers were former U.S.…

State Department Spokesperson Ned Price briefed reporters and responded to questions. Acting Assistant Secretary for Political Military Affairs Timothy Betts discussed the 2021 “To Walk the Earth…

The Washington Post's Joby Warrick discussed American efforts to destroy chemical weapons in Syria during its Civil War. He was interviewed by Georgetown University Professor and author…

Elliott Abrams, who served as the Trump administration’s special representative for Iran, discussed the Biden administration’s policy toward Iran at a virtual event hosted by the Middle East Forum. Mr.…

The Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion with Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE) on nuclear modernization. Senator Fischer, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, discussed the…

John Mollison of the South Dakota Air and Space Museum and Kim Morey of the South Dakota Air and Space Foundation talked about Ellsworth Air Force Base. Established in 1941 as a training ground for B-17…

Firearms expert George Dillman explained the evolution of rifles and carbines used during World Wars I and II. He discussed more than 20 firearms of the era, detailing the manufacturing…

CJ Mitchell recounted his time as a construction worker in Hanford, Washington, beginning in the late 1940s. The site was used for atomic weapons production in World War II and during the Cold War. In…

Roger Rohrbacher was an instrument engineer for the Manhattan Project’s B Reactor, the world’s first production-scale nuclear reactor, in Hanford, Washington. He was responsible for measuring neutron flow…

Professor Martin Sherwin talked about the Manhattan Project, beginning with the discovery of fission in 1938 through the use of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and…

In this National World War II Museum oral history recorded in 2016, Army veteran Ben Bederson talked about his assignment to the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and working on the ignition…

The C-SPAN Cities Tour explored the American story with a look at the creation and use of the first atomic weapon by the United States on Japan in 1945.

The test of the first nuclear bomb occurred in the desert of New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Known as “Trinity,” its purpose was to assess the effectiveness of a plutonium implosion…

National World War II Museum oral historian Hannah Dailey talked about “atomic veterans” -- servicemen assigned to nuclear bomb tests and clean-up -- many of whom suffered long-term health…

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) held a virtual discussion on the new Biden administration’s nuclear policy agenda. Michele Flournoy, former Defense under secretary for…

This National History Center briefing from Capitol Hill featured a political scientist and a historian who have spent their careers studying American-Iranian relations. In light of current tensions between…

This 1945 Universal Newsreel includes stories about the Potsdam Declaration of Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and President Harry Truman, the science behind the atom bomb, and Truman’s…

Atomic Heritage Foundation founder and president Cynthia Kelly recounted her efforts to preserve a site in Los Alamos, New Mexico, associated with the Manhattan Project’s July 1945 Trinity nuclear test. The…