The Manhattan Project successfully developed and tested the first atomic device. To allow the scientists to work without distraction, the enormous logistical and management challenges of the project ...

The Manhattan Project was a top-secret program to make the first atomic bombs during World War II. Its results had profound impacts on history: the subsequent nuclear arms race has radically changed ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – More than 80 years after Harshaw Chemical began producing uranium compounds along the Cuyahoga River for use in making atom bombs, final cleanup of the contaminated plant site is ...

Earlier this week, the National Park Service shared two announcements pertaining to Oak Ridge: the city has been designated an American World War II Heritage City - the only one in Tennessee - and a ...

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan to force the unconditional surrender that ended World War II. The fearsome weapons were created by ...