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 ...

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

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his ...

The town of Los Alamos was soon up and running ... Los Alamos is still an active national laboratory, and the Manhattan Project sites are still off limits to the public. Photographer Minesh ...

Wendover AFB History Office Toward the end of 1943, Manhattan Project scientists at a secret mountain laboratory complex at Los Alamos ... run out of a tiny border town in northwest Utah.

In 1943 J. Robert Oppenheimer was named the director of the Bomb Project at Los Alamos, a self-contained area protected -- and completely controlled -- by the U.S. Army. Special driver's licenses ...

Los Alamos, which is best known for being behind the atomic bomb’s Manhattan Project and Trinity test site in New Mexico, is federally funded and part of the U.S. Department of Energy.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist. During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, where he led the effort to develop the world’s ...

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.