You may have already watched Christopher Nolan's blockbuster on the atomic bomb, but now you can read a first-hand account of the Manhattan Project ... Robert Oppenheimer and Nobel Prize winners ...

It presents a new lens in which to consider one of the most well-known events in the US—but Oppenheimer is not the only way to access the memory of this history. Manhattan Project National ...

But Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Groves chose Oppenheimer as the Manhattan Project’s director in 1942 ... closely with his faith and served as the president of New York’s Temple Emanu-El from ...

For years, the story of that name remained untold, for good reason. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very existence and the work that went on there — was kept from Americans during World War II. Many of the thousands of scientists on the ...

"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 ...

Nichols as deputy district engineer and subsequently as district engineer of the Manhattan ... with Oppenheimer took place at Oak Ridge, Berkeley, New York, Chicago or Washington, when problems arose.

Oppenheimer, who died in 1967, led the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The theoretical physicist was later accused of ...

U.S. theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) led the Manhattan Project, America’s wartime atomic bomb development initiative. He is also the main character of “Oppenheimer ...

In reality, Oppenheimer consulted Arthur Compton, who was directing the University of Chicago efforts of the Manhattan Project ... the letter that convinced President Franklin D.

Today, the Doomsday Clock was set to 89 seconds to midnight, signaling that experts fear we are dangerously close to a global ...