There have been plenty of books and movies about how the Manhattan Project brought together scientists and engineers to ...

LEWISTON, N.Y. — As the world marks 80 years since the Atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the effort to develop the weapon lingers in the ground throughout Western New York.

The Movement is a weekly newsletter tracking the influence and debates steering politics on the right. Sign up here or in the box below. The Heritage Foundation wants a “Manhattan ...

In “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky,” Garrett Graff crafts an oral history of the Manhattan Project and its deadly ...

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 Trinity test—the detonation of the world’s first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project. Two years ago, the film Oppenheimer premiered in theaters and became an ...

"The exploration of how key government officials were unaware of the implications of developing the first atomic bomb during World War II, leaving the lives of millions of Americans in the hands of a ...

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