Emily Seyl's richly illustrated history of the Trinity Test reveals how the Manhattan Project transformed innovation—and ...

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has a long history with nuclear power. It’s home to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the leading institution for nuclear research in the U.S., but more famously, the city was ...

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan to force the unconditional surrender that ended World War II. The fearsome weapons were created by ...

The history of Hanford nuclear reservation is often centered on the enormity of its original mission of refining plutonium to power the atomic bombs that would bring WWII to an end - and the clean up ...

Even though a portion of Manhattan‘s events were made up, the show includes all of the necessary scenes to accurately tell the Manhattan Project’s story. The scientists’ tireless day-to-day work and ...

Wendy Wintersteen is president of Iowa State University. Watching the young men and women sailors scramble aboard the new USS Iowa submarine as ship sponsor Christie Vilsack announced, "Board our boat ...

My father, Donald Schover, was an electronics research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (or Met Lab)—the same lab where Enrico Fermi and his team achieved the first ...

In Part 1 of this series, I recalled being asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was so successful. I compared the timelines for the X-10 Graphite Reactor (nine months) to the ...

The story of Trinity Site begins with the formation of the Manhattan Project in June of 1942. The project was given overall responsibility for designing and building an atomic device. At the time it ...