Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the ...

Manhattan Project scientists working on the Thin Man plutonium gun assembly. Two atomic bombs nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, effectively ...

The big thinkers at Aperture reveal the hidden and dark aspects of the Manhattan Project.

The story of Trinity Site begins with the formation of the Manhattan Project in June of 1942. The project was given overall responsibility for designing and building an atomic device. At the time it ...

There have been plenty of books and movies about how the Manhattan Project brought together scientists and engineers to create the nuclear bomb. Most of them don’t have a lot of technical substance, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Shipments of radioactive waste in Lewiston that is left over from the Manhattan Project are being sent to Texas, officials confirmed to WIVB News 4 on Tuesday. The materials are ...

My father, Donald Schover, was an electronics research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (or Met Lab)—the same lab where Enrico Fermi and his team achieved the first ...

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 ...