The story of Trinity Site begins with the formation of the Manhattan Project in June of 1942. The project was given overall ...

L.C. Gipson, 81, moved from his home in Lexington, Miss., to Oak Ridge in 1950 to live with his uncle, a janitor for the Manhattan Project. Six days before he started school, Emmett Till was ...

New York City was a center for Manhattan Project research, which allowed the United States to execute the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

While the majority of words dedicated to the nation’s nuclear ambitions have thus far focused on the two other principal Manhattan Project sites — Los Alamos, N.M., and Oak Ridge, Tenn ...

When Oppenheimer was recruited to run the Manhattan Project in 1942, he chose to build his laboratories in Los Alamos. The site, in the government’s view, was an ideal place for bomb-building.

The Manhattan Project ... Remember, replace “We could never do that today” with “We can do another Manhattan Project today!” D. Ray Smith is the city of Oak Ridge historian.