OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — With the success of “Oppenheimer,” many may not realize how close they are to the historical sites of the Manhattan Project in East Tennessee. “Oppenheimer” follows the story ...
During the middle of World War II, teenage physics major Roy Glauber found himself plucked out of college on the East Coast and assigned to work at a mysterious new government research center in the ...
The atomic bomb was developed in New Mexico, but its first offices were near City Hall Park, giving rise to the name of the endeavor. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at ...
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 ...
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 ...