This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the Southern New Mexico desert. The test, which sent a giant mushroom cloud ...

Recently, I have been asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a very short time compared to what folks envision can be done with a similar project in ...

The Manhattan Project occurred between 1942 and 1946. It employed over 129,000 people at its peak and cost a total of $2 billion. The project produced the first working nuclear bombs and ushered in ...

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 ...