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 ...

Robert Oppenheimer helped lead the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb. But he was almost bounced from the Manhattan Project entirely—why? J. Robert Oppenheimer, often called the 'father of the ...

Female scientists played important roles in the Manhattan Project that created the first atomic bomb during World War II. But you wouldn’t know this from the blockbuster movie, “Oppenheimer.” ...

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 ...

A sign marks a roadside rest stop that has been made to look like the historic security gate that all Manhattan Project workers passed through in Los Alamos, N.M., on June 26, 2023. The community ...

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 ...

The atomic bomb was developed in a secret government initiative known as the Manhattan Project, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. Army Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves was appointed director of ...

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 ...