It was the greatest experiment ever conducted on U.S. soil. Discover 20 little-known facts about the Manhattan project.

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

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

It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the Manhattan Project scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the site of the world's first industrial-scale plutonium reactor, known as the “B ...

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 ...

Those bombs were developed as part of the Manhattan Project atomic weapons program. The Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which preserves key sites and documents the bombs' development ...