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 ...

In never-before-seen photographs, explore the secret U.S. facility and home to the Manhattan Project scientists who ... During the last two years of World War II, between 1,500 and 8,200 ...

During World War II Cuneo served as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secret liaison with a covert British spy nest—known only to FDR and a few members of his innermost circle—hiding in the ...

Standing in a building that hosts the world's second fastest supercomputer at an original Manhattan Project site ... an atomic weapon during World War II. Wright, formerly a gas and oil executive ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very existence and the work that went on there — was kept from Americans during World War II. Many of the thousands of scientists on the ...

America’s new energy secretary, Chris Wright, recently appeared to endorse this, declaring that the nation is “at the start of Manhattan Project 2”. Western leadership in AI is an economic ...

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

First, we need a Manhattan Project for rare earths — a national ... It’s studied the lessons of history and outmaneuvered the world. The war is here. We must flip our perspective from a ...

Ominously enough, one of his primary examples of a unifying initiative worth emulating is World War II’s Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bombs. He sees the building of those ...