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 ...

While some blame “woke” campus culture, the roots of this clash go back some 80-plus years, when the US first called on scientists for the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb.

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 ...

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 ...

Ernest Cuneo, a burly former Columbia football player who weighed in at nearly 300 pounds, was an unlikely spook—but an effective one. During World War II Cuneo served as President Franklin D.

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 ...

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 ...

the paper comes just a few months after a U.S. congressional commission proposed a “Manhattan Project-style” effort to fund AGI development, modeled after America’s atomic bomb program in ...

On its site, the DOE states that it traces its origins to World War II and the Manhattan Project effort to build the first atomic bomb. “As the direct descendent of the Manhattan Engineer ...

the creation of the atomic bomb remains a fascinating piece of subject material. As a result, there exist limitless books, documentaries, and movies about the Manhattan Project for history lovers ...