In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial ... the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has a complicated legacy, including the rise of both ...

Oppenheimer was the genius who built the bomb, but Leslie Groves was the no-nonsense boss who put the Manhattan Project over ...

With the War Department’s gratitude, Iowa State and Wilhelm both received the Army Navy "E for Excellence" banner. Iowa State ...

Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today. This is the first installment of a new bimonthly column by David Austin Walsh. “A moment of ...

The Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which preserves key sites and documents the bombs' development and legacy, is asking people around the world to send paper cranes with messages of ...

It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the Manhattan Project scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the site of the world's first industrial-scale plutonium reactor, known as the “B ...

The Los Alamos History Museum is showcasing new photos that John “Mike” Michnovicz took during the Manhattan Project. Michnovicz captured some of the most iconic images of the top-secret ...

His legacy, like the Manhattan Project itself, is infinitely complex. Special thanks to Alex Wellerstein, historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey ...