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

The physicists working there were part of the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, and they had one goal—developing the first nuclear weapon ... The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

Peter Thiel is obsessed with atoms. The prescient venture capitalist has said that the Manhattan Project, which created the ...

where Manhattan Project scientists would use it in the development of atomic weapons. Some of this material ended up in the atomic bomb used in the Trinity Test, the first denotation of a nuclear ...

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

Imagine the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and then multiply it by 670,000 times. Terrifying doesn't really cover it.

Real estate developer and former GOP state Senate candidate Tim Walsh is in line for a new gig: overseeing the clean-up of ...

America’s new energy secretary, Chris Wright, recently appeared to endorse this, declaring that the nation is “at the start of Manhattan Project ... could nullify nuclear deterrence through ...