Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, I have been asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a very short time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the ...

The Manhattan Project did not just build the bomb, it left a trail of radiation poisoning, stolen land, and abandoned workers ...

AMES, Iowa — An upcoming lecture will explore the role of Iowa State University scientists in making the Manhattan Project possible. Teresa Wilhelm Waldof is an independent scholar and the leading ...

One of the most controversial collaborative efforts in history, The Manhattan Project has been the subject of well over a dozen books, including Richard Rhodes' Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Making of ...

Although more than a half century has passed since former Chicagoan Ed Baker took part in the top secret atomic bomb Manhattan Project, his memory is as sharp as if it were yesterday. Baker especially ...

During World War II, scientists working for the Manhattan Project secretly developed the world's first nuclear bombs. Now, under an agreement between the National Parks Service and the Department of ...

The Manhattan Project, the secret research mission to develop an atomic weapon ahead of Germany and bring an end to World War II, was one of the 20th century’s most ambitious feats of science and ...