The Atomic Bomb was developed during World War II under the Manhattan Project and tested for the first time in 1945 (Trinity Test) and later dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Demolition work on a former uranium enrichment building dating back to the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge is progressing. The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and its cleanup ...

a Hungarian-born American physicist who was part of the Manhattan Project. A promoter of Operation Plowshare (use of atomic weapons in peaceful projects, mainly in engineering) and considered the ...

Robert Oppenheimer, whose efforts to develop the bomb alongside his team of scientists on the Manhattan Project is at the center of Oppenheimer. (Who is Oppenheimer? The controversial man behind ...

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 ...

Once there, he led the theoretical division of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Bethe was just one of dozens of academics pulled from elite American research universities into ...

“You know, in the original Manhattan Project, Nazi Germany was also trying to develop [an] atomic bomb,” Wright said. “So the cost of being second was just devastating. Like, that was a race not [that ...

Taft Ave., Loveland. The Loveland Connection program by Harvey Hirning will focus on the Manhattan Project and the testing of the “gadget” that led to the nuclear weapons that helped bring an ...

She has developed the project to ease the distress children face during air-raid warnings. Many schools in Ukraine must move children from their classrooms to bomb shelters whenever alarms sound.