The Manhattan Project aimed to build the first atomic bomb during World War II after the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939. The project involved over 30 research and development sites and employed ...

Visitors to the Historic Wendover Airfield can now see how crews loaded some of the first atomic weapons during World War II, ...

There have been plenty of books and movies about how the Manhattan Project brought together scientists and engineers to create the nuclear bomb. Most of them don’t have a lot of technical substance, ...

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has a long history with nuclear power. It’s home to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the leading institution for nuclear research in the U.S., but more famously, the city was ...

Building atom bombs was a feat rivaling the science behind them. The Manhattan Project oversaw hundreds of thousands of workers in cities that technically didn’t exist. Madeleine Brand Host, 'Press ...