The Army Corps of Engineers has been cleaning up radioactive contamination near St. Louis since the 1990s, but their efforts ...

Her provocative buildings emerged from the experimentation of the downtown arts scene — and this year, the architect is back ...

Uranium produced in St. Louis was used for the secretive Manhattan Project. Leftover waste was dumped around the city.

An 'insidious' nuclear disaster dating back to World War II may have fueled an explosion of cancers and other rare, chronic ...

After moving to New York City, I decided to walk every block of Manhattan. It took me 13 months and I learned so much history ...

The Elizabeth Street Garden in Lower Manhattan was going to be razed to make way for affordable housing for older New Yorkers ...

New York… has proven over and over it can rebuild itself bigger and stronger, but it’s not something preordained and it’s ...

At the Social Security Administration, lawyers, statisticians and other high-ranking agency officials are being sent from the ...

Through vows of secrecy and compartmentalization techniques, the Manhattan Project managed to employ hundreds of thousands of people, spend billions of dollars, and create the most powerful weapon ...

Many people will be surprised to learn that Vice President Harry S. Truman was surprisingly unaware of the Manhattan Project. He didn’t know about its existence until he assumed the office of ...

Having this project gave me built-in plans every weekend — if I had nothing else going on, I could always go for a walk. When I tell people I walked every block of Manhattan, I can tell how long ...