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

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 ...

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 ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

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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 ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very ... by 1945 some had figured out that they were in fact building an atomic bomb.

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 other two production sites for the Manhattan Project – Hanford, Washington ... but it's kind of handy to have our own bomb plant." Only a handful of people participated in the alliance's public ...

The other evidential document comes from the U.S. Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb Investigating Group, which measured radiation levels in Nagasaki Prefecture in September and October 1945.