One of the most important projects of the 20th century was also one of the most daring and destructive, and it reshaped the ...

According to several of the sources, German forces placed many concentration camp prisoners at the test site as human guinea ...

July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

These revelations touched off a frenzy of scientific work on fission around the world ... on the scale of what the Americans invested in the Manhattan Project. Thus Heisenberg and his colleagues ...

Her discovery of fission made the atom bomb possible, but she refused to have anything to do with the Manhattan Project. Special thanks to Frank Close, Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at ...

President Donald Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense project will require a whole-of-government effort on par with the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, according to a Space ...

offering to fund investigations into how fission could be used for atomic energy. During World War II, Fermi worked on the Manhattan Project, leading the group of physicists that built the world ...

One route to producing fission fuel for nuclear weapons is ... Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project sent Percival C. Keith, chief designer of the Oak Ridge K-25 plant, on a top-secret, two ...

One route to producing fission fuel for nuclear weapons is enriching uranium ... In September 1946, Gen. Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project sent Percival C. Keith, chief designer of the Oak Ridge ...