Oppenheimer was the genius who built the bomb, but Leslie Groves was the no-nonsense boss who put the Manhattan Project over ...

Decades of jungle growth stripped away and multiple runways restored on abandoned airfield in the strategic second island ...

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 ...

J.B. McNatt of Greenville – beloved rancher, business man and World War II veteran – will celebrate his 101st birthday. In recognition of this milestone, on Tuesday, McNatt was presented with both a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Radioactive waste has been leaking from a storage tank at Hanford Site — a nuclear waste storage facility in Washington State — since at least 2011. In an ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a ...

Manhattan Project sites as a Historical Park In 2015 ... guide brought her to Japan for the first time in the 1980s. Her WWII veteran father had objected because it was once America's enemy.

The Los Alamos History Museum is showcasing new photos that John “Mike” Michnovicz took during the Manhattan Project. Michnovicz captured some of the most iconic images of the top-secret ...

Paul Stephens, a high school student in Ithaca, New York, is generally unmotivated academically despite being a science geek, his interest, as per his age, mostly in those science items that have ...