“It will become, potentially, The Manhattan Project of our time,” Trump said, referring to the speedy operation during World ...

"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 ...

Gadget, the world's first atomic bomb, was detonated on the morning of July 6, 1945, changing the course of history. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by Amanda Macias. Follow BI Video ...

Their grandmother is an atomic bomb survivor. All the cranes made for the 75th anniversary of the bombings will be collected and archived by the Manhattan Project National Historical Park ...

A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima ... which eventually became the Manhattan Project. One of his first moves was to bring together various chain reaction ...

In the past couple of years, the public imagination has been taken up with all things nuclear — the bomb, energy and ... And the uranium was used in the Manhattan Project, which developed ...

The bomb’s colossal destructive power comes from the vast amounts of energy released when atoms are split. The top secret project to create it was codenamed the Manhattan Project. It was led by ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and therefore responsible for the research ...

Roosevelt’s approval for a new Manhattan ... design, construction and operation of all the plants and for all the project except for Intelligence, overseas work, the training for the bomb ...