The development of the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project marked the dawn of a new era. This video takes an in-depth look at how it was accomplished and its lasting impact on the world.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has recently embarked on the “new Manhattan Project” — a hiring spree and ...

By World War II, his drive to defeat Germany would propel him to direct the Manhattan Project — the top-secret development of an American atomic bomb — at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

The U.S. government wants to select "disparate" locations where it could eventually make bomb-grade uranium again.

Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained ...

After the Trinity test, she joined several of the top Manhattan Project scientists in signing a petition that urged the military to demonstrate the bomb’s destructive capability rather than drop ...

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

Leslie Groves to create efficiency and teamwork in the Manhattan Project, their grueling travel schedules and ... which was my responsibility and bomb efficiency, which was Oppenheimer’s field. “At ...