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

To be honest, I have no clue what I’m looking at beyond the fact that it’s a key object in the World War II-era race to ...

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.

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 ...

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

My grandfather J. Robert Oppenheimer shared the first principle of nuclear weapons: The only safety from them is in cooperation. Trump agrees.

While some blame “woke” campus culture, the roots of this clash go back some 80-plus years, when the US first called on scientists for the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb.

The tests may have been carried out with good intentions but the reality represented some significant oversights, gaffs, and ...

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 ...

Despite a lifelong commitment to pacifism, in 1939, Einstein signed a letter urging the US government to speed up work on the development of a nuclear bomb. Naomi finds out why. Special thanks to ...