With the War Department’s gratitude, Iowa State and Wilhelm both received the Army Navy "E for Excellence" banner. Iowa State ...

The successful development of nuclear bombs during the Manhattan Project led the Allies to use them against Japan to hasten ...

SARAH KREPS is John L. Wetherill Professor and Director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University and a Nonresident ...

The Ames Project produced 2 million pounds of purified uranium for the Manhattan Project during World War II. In this 1943 photo, Ames Project employee Irwin Jensen examines uranium billets post ...

This was, of course, the Manhattan Project, a top-secret, US-led World War II research effort that led directly to the development of the first atomic bomb. Ultimately used twice to help end the ...

"'Surely no one in Oak Ridge seriously thought the United States could possibly lose World War II? She stared at him in disbelief ..." ...

The U.S. government decommissioned K-25 in 1985 and permanently shut it down in 1987, kicking off a long process of demolishing and cleaning the site at the southwest corner of Oak Ridge. The main ...

Jake Schreier talks about the surprising inspiration behind the design of The Void and what he does to his victims in the ...

None of this was possible, however, without the Manhattan Project ... atomic bomb and its moral implications. Even before World War II, the Kodak film company took measures to protect its ...

To produce all 3,943 B-29 Superfortresses, it cost $3.7 billion, which comes out to $930,000 per bomber. Adjusted for ...

I was promised cherry blossoms if I came to Tokyo,” joked Professor Peter Feaver on a chilly March Friday to a room full of ...