Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained ...
Gadget, the world's first atomic bomb, was detonated on the morning of July 6, 1945, changing the course of history. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by Amanda Macias. Follow BI Video ...
A historic nuclear reactor in Washington State was a critical part of the Manhattan Project, a site where plutonium was ...
As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very ... by 1945 some had figured out that they were in fact building an atomic bomb.
“It will become, potentially, The Manhattan Project of our time,” Trump said, referring to the speedy operation during World ...
Nichols as deputy district engineer and subsequently as district engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District (MED). In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, ...
(JTA) — Abraham Zarem was 28 when he joined the Manhattan Project, the vast U.S. government effort to develop the atom bomb. Engineers like him gathered in secret laboratories in New Mexico ...
Robert Oppenheimer and members of the Manhattan Project are now up for auction. RR Auction has listed a pair of historic items related to the late physicist and “father of the atomic bomb ...