The Hermes Project. Fast forward to the 21st century, and Oak Ridge is once again a focal point for nuclear advancement.

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 ...

author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, likens the event to “the pope conferring his blessings.” Two weeks later, the reactor was ready to start. The day had been hot at Hanford with the ...

on what would become known as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The plutonium refined at the site as part of World War II’s Manhattan Project fueled the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki ...

Robert Oppenheimer needed to construct an atomic bomb. Matthias’ last stop on his hunt for a Manhattan Project site was this arid steppe known as the Hanford Reach. A nuclear reactor is not easy ...

It was installed near the Hanford Reach National Monument in Aug ... But that was the Hollywood version of the atomic bomb’s history. A new documentary takes a step back and offers a more ...

Once identified, Hanford scientists were able to resolve the issue. Their preliminary work made the bomb possible: The Trinity test, conducted on July 15, 1945, demonstrated the atomic bomb was ...

Scaled up, this could mean an atomic bomb. The secretive United States ... while thousands more created another fissile material, plutonium, in Hanford, Washington. Including the hundreds of ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer and the band of geniuses he recruited won the existential race to create the atomic bombs that ended World War II. They also set the stage for a nuclear arms buildup in which ...