The United States government established the Manhattan Project in 1942 to design, build, and deliver the world's first atomic bombs. The Project drew on academic, industrial, military, and human ...

There was more to the Manhattan Project than just creating an atomic bomb. There was also the effort to spin the story ...

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 ...

Manhattan Project scientists working on the Thin Man plutonium gun assembly. Two atomic bombs nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, effectively ...

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

There have been plenty of books and movies about how the Manhattan Project brought together scientists and engineers to create the nuclear bomb. Most of them don’t have a lot of technical substance, ...