A new program at the Manhattan Project Visitors Center, titled "Atomic Explorations," is set to offer an in-depth look at the people, science, and history behind the ...

Robert Oppenheimer, often called the 'father of the atomic bomb,' was almost removed from ... which focused on uranium enrichment; Hanford, Washington, where plutonium production facilities ...

Ray Smith has been asked to provide info on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a short time compared ...

Production of the WWII atomic bomb was “need to know”, limited to physicists and engineers for security.  The two fission bombs immediately killed about a quarter million Japanese.

The Department of Energy has picked Brian Harkins the acting manager of the Hanford site in Eastern Washington just weeks after naming him acting deputy manager. The former DOE Hanford manager ...

The Trump administration showed support for environmental cleanup at Hanford in its initial proposal for fiscal 2026 funding, calling for a much higher annual budget than it did during Trump’s ...

After 25 years of exhaustive research and investigative effort, historian and founding Atomic Museum member Robert Friedrichs has uncovered the true identity of the woman behind one of the most ...

In 2024, under the Biden presidency, Hanford for the first time received a budget that exceeded $3 billion at $3.05 billion. Project 2025 on Hanford site Project 2025, which has served as a ...

The "A" stands for "atomic," and was quickly adopted as a name for the earliest nuclear weapons. The A-Bomb wasn't just tested by the U.S., as it was infamously used twice against an enemy ...

Courtesy of Barbara Kent The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation. It took place at 5:29 a.m. local time atop a hundred-foot ...