Newly declassified documents reveal that Gen. Leslie Groves—director of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret operation that built the atomic bomb during World War II—misled Congress and the ...

was never seen by the president before the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. After the bombings, Americans were divided in their response to the Manhattan Project. Some applauded the ...

In 1946, three Manhattan project scientists, including Teller, who would later become known as the father of the hydrogen bomb, wrote a report concluding that the explosive force of the first ...

Parsons worked on the Manhattan Project as an ordnance director, designing and testing non-nuclear components of the atomic weapon. Later, he personally armed the atomic bomb that was dropped on ...

From the scientists who helped developed the first atom bomb to the nurses and laborers who supported them, this is the first half of a two-part piece on the women of the Manhattan Project.

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense project will require a whole-of-government effort on par with the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, according to a Space ...

At that moment I reminded myself to send the book, “Wilhelm’s Way — The Inspiring Story of the Iowa Chemist Who Saved the Manhattan Project ... a possible nuclear bomb had been conceived ...

Welcome back to The Prompt. US nuclear physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atomic bomb. The proposal comes as the rivalry between the U.S. and China intensifies over artificial ...

It was then shipped to labs across the country for the top secret Manhattan Project that created the first nuclear bomb. "I think there are people to this day who don't know the story," Morice said.