There were at least 19 Black scientists and technicians who worked on the Manhattan Project. Their contributions helped develop the atomic bombs used to end World War II, but many didn't know the ...

Newly declassified documents reveal that Gen. Leslie Groves—director of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret operation that built the atomic bomb during World War II—misled Congress and the ...

Manhattan Project scientists used their talents to destroy, even as they fought to save As they learned more about the project they were working on, atomic bomb scientists pushed back.

– One month before the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, killing an estimated 150,000 people in Hiroshima and 75,000 people in Nagasaki, some of the Manhattan Project's leading ...

One month before the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, killing an estimated 150,000 people in Hiroshima and 75,000 people in Nagasaki, some of the Manhattan Project's leading ...

On This Day: The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb. During WWII, there was growing concern that German scientists had discovered how to split a uranium atom.

Off-Broadway Manhattan Project an ‘Atomic’ bomb By . Frank Scheck. Published July 13, 2014, 4:19 p.m. ET. Grace Stockdale, Jonathan Hammond and Jeremy Kushnier in "Atomic," at the Acorn Theater.

July 14, 2023 The creation of the atomic bomb hinged on a Philly physicist Robert Serber, who worked on the Manhattan Project, was a close friend and colleague of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Michael ...

Manhattan Project construction begins at Hanford, Wash.; Oak Ridge, Tenn.; and Los Alamos, N.M. May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders to the Allies, having failed to develop an atomic bomb.

In 1946, three Manhattan project scientists, including Teller, who would later become known as the father of the hydrogen bomb, wrote a report concluding that the explosive force of the first ...