It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on ... families when the Manhattan Project took over ...

Leslie Groves was appointed director of the Manhattan Project and chose theoretical ... according to the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center. The atomic bomb test was code named "Trinity" and was ...

After the Trinity Test, Manhattan Project leadership determined that ... to radiation any place in the world as a result of an atomic bomb. And we're left out?...I thought 'This has to be ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very ... by 1945 some had figured out that they were in fact building an atomic bomb.

The House Oversight Committee is aware of a machine operated by a Chinese military company that is in use at the nation’s ...

By World War II, his drive to defeat Germany would propel him to direct the Manhattan Project — the top-secret development of an American atomic bomb — at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

The first atomic bomb ever detonated, known as the Trinity test, used about 13 pounds ... part of the United States' top-secret Manhattan Project tasked with building the atom bomb.

On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic weapon was tested in New Mexico in the United States. This plutonium atomic bomb was called Trinity and it marked the beginning of the nuclear age.

After the Trinity test, she joined several of the top Manhattan Project scientists in signing ... In The Making of the Atomic Bomb, author Richard Rhodes describes Kitty Oppenheimer as a ...

A piece of Trinitite, green glass fused from sand melted by intense heat from the first Atomic Bomb ... [+] test as part of the Manhattan Project, Trinity Site near Los Alamos, NM, July 16 ...

was never seen by the president before the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. After the bombings, Americans were divided in their response to the Manhattan Project. Some applauded the ...

Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'. The global impacts of this project were cataclysmic. Credible reports of German developments spurred the American Manhattan Project, ...